Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

OBSERVATORY OF RELIGIONS IN SWITZERLAND (ORS)
Address
Université de Lausanne, ORS, Bâtiment Provence,
CH-1015 Lausanne
Phone +41 (0)21 692 27 02
Fax +41 (0)21 692 27 26
Web www.unil.ch/ors
E-Mail info.ors@unil.ch
Category Research and Knowledge
MISSION STATEMENT
The Observatory of Religions in Switzerland (ORS) is an academic, non-confessional, interdisciplinary and multi-method research
institute. It aims at analyzing religious phenomena in Switzerland, in comparison with international cases and situations.
Founding year 1999
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
ORS strives to:
� organize research projects,
� animate a network of researchers,
� organize workshops and conferences
� teach courses in the sociology of religion,
� build a centre of documentation and offer information on religion in Switzerland.
ORS promotes a plural approach of religion and religious phenomena (sociology, study of religion, anthropology, political science,
theology). Its researchers use a diversity of approaches (quantitative, qualitative, historical, etc).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(2000). "International Social Survey Program: Religion et valeurs, problèmes de méthode et comparaison internationale." Cahiers de
l'Observatoire des Religions en Suisse 1(1).
(2005). Vie musulmane en Suisse: Profils identitaires, demandes et perceptions des musulmans en Suisse, Observatoire des Religions
en Suisse, Groupe de Recherche sur l'Islam GRIS.
Campiche, R. J. (2004). Les deux visages de la religion, Fascination et désenchantement. Geneva, Labor et Fidès.
Stolz, J. (2006). La sécularisation et le retour du religieux. Une intégration théorique partant de l'exemple Suisse. Lausanne,
Observatoire des Religions en Suisse.
REMARKS
ORS has a library containing about 500 books. Free access on their website to dictionaries and encyclopaedias on religion as well as
statistical data.
Roland Campiche: founder of ORS, professor in sociology of religions at University of Lausanne between 1970 and 2001, president
of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) in 1991.