Reshaping Spaces, Reframing Identities. The House of One and the Minorities Communication in Germany

The ways in which religious communities (re-)present themselves in the contemporary public sphere is a topic frequently connected with the dynamics of construction of the urban space as a place of intersections. The study of the changes occurred in the cities, conceived as places of socio-political and cultural innovation, constitutes one of the lenses through which the results of such transformations can be interpreted. In the light of the communication campaigns by three religious minorities in Germany, this paper analyses the case of The House of One project as a form of a ‘tangible dialogue’ and an example of creating discourses within an interreligious dialogue. Starting from the reconstruction of the development of this project, the analysis of the connected fundraising campaign and the reading of official texts, this work examines the profiles, the activities and the objectives pursued by the actors involved, and the contents of their presentations.