translate English to German: As liberal democratic societies they tolerate and respect individual religious freedom. But due to the pressure towards the privatization of religion, which among European societies has become a taken-for-granted characteristic of the self-definition of a modern secular society, those societies have a much greater difficulty in recognizing some legitimate role for religion in public life and in the organization and mobilization of collective group identities.
Unter dem Eindruck der gesellschaftlich verankerten Anerkennung des religiösen Pluralismus wird die religiöse Identität von den neuen Zuwanderern hochgradig besetzt.