ReIReS meets European Cultural Agencies: 8 interviews with Federico Gallo, José Antonio Martínez García, Gábor Sonkoly, Constanze Itzel, Giovanni Carletti, Alexandra Curvelo, Zrinka Štimac, David Forsyth

As additional work approved by the ReIReS Editorial Board, the CNR-ISEM group (Giovanni Sini, Patrizia Spinato and Marcello Verga) produced a series of video interviews, aiming to investigate and better understand the current cultural policies regarding religious studies as practiced by some of the main European cultural agencies and stakeholders (museums, academies, libraries, publishing houses, etc.). Great attention was paid to the presence or absence of religious studies in the institutions policies; their way of dealing with religious subjects and issues; activities and research projects foreseen within religious sciences; and their opinion about the relationship among religious studies, European values, citizenship and modernity. The interviewees were: Giovanni Carletti, senior editor at Laterza Alexandra Curvelo, Professor in History of Art at NOVA University in Lisbon David Forsyth, Interim, Keeper, Art & Design National Museums Scotland Monsignor Federico Gallo, director of Biblioteca and Accademia Ambrosiana Constanze Itzel, director of House European History museum Rvd D. José Antonio Martínez García, director of Diocesan Museum de Arte Sacro, Diócesis de Orihuela-Alicante Gábor Sonkoly, member and head of the European Commission of Cultural Heritage – Elite University, Budapest Srinka Štimac, senior research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute.