The Western Balkans have experienced also in recent times inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts. This was not happened to the people living within the Albanian state, where, in a space marked by secularism, pluralism and tolerance among members of different faiths developed. This study reconstructs, through the analysis of the Statutes of the different religious communities, result of a self-produced law that have interacted with the state rules, how the law has played a pedagogic role of education to the coexistence.
The volume wants to make a contribution to the "work in progress" opened on the countries of Eastern Europe, with the intent to allow the identification of the common roots of Europe.
Giovanni Cimbalo, born in Rose (CS) in 1947, is a professor of ecclesiastical law at the University of Bologna.