ABSTRACT
The notion of citizenship is elusive and manifold, in both general and scholarly usage. An especially fruitful way to conceptualise citizenship is to emphasise it as belonging to a particular community (not necessarily a nation-state), which enacts certain rights and obligations from its members, all of whom actively participate on equal footing. Religious citizenship is a varied and multilevel concept. On the level of the nation-state, it may be understood as the constitutionally guaranteed freedom to worship and participate in religious practice, alone or in a community with others. On the level of religious organisations and communities, it can be seen as granting people the status of full members of these organisations on an equal basis with others. In the research we present in this chapter, we consider religious citizenship largely from the perspective of conditions that enable people with intellectual disabilities to actively practise religion and participate in the lives of their religious communities, on their terms and an equal basis with their non-disabled fellow citizens.
