While religious/life stance actors across the globe do not necessarily accept the Human Rights framework as universally binding and ethically and legally authoritative, there is a general tendency of religious/life stance communities to utilize the right to Freedom of Religion or Belief (FORB), particularly when being in a minority position. This panel invites contributions which speak on FORB, giving attention to religious/life stance perspectives ‘from the inside’. That may include the following: (a) philosophical or legal discussions on overlapping religious/life stance justifications of FORB; theoretical defences or criticisms of FORB rights from a religious/life stance perspective; (b) empirical positionings of religious/life stance communities or actors in the complex of societal, interreligious or religion-state relations; (c) struggles within religious/life stance communities with FORB rights or other fundamental human rights. Session 1Chair: Leon van den Broeke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)Speakers: Jelle Creemers (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit), Freedom, Privilege and Control: Complex Intersections in Religion-State Relations in BelgiumTatiana Kopaleishvili (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit), Public Management of Religion in Georgia today and response of the Evangelical Churches Leon van den Broeke (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Public Worship in the Context of Freedom of Religion or BeliefSession 2 Chair: Jelle Creemers (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit)Speakers: Rudmer Bijlsma (Protestantse Theologische Universiteit), Spinoza on the freedom of speech Klaas-Willem de Jong (Protestantse Theologische Universiteit), The Contemporary Scope of Freedom of Expression in the Light of Spinoza’s Thoughts on this Fundamental Right