Laurențiu Petrila is a lecturer at the Agora University of Oradea in the department of law and administrative sciences. He is also an Associate Professor at the State University of Oradea in the departments of Sociology, International Relations and European Studies and Political Sciences. After receiving his PhD from the Babeș–Bolyai University of Cluj–Napoca in 2018, he started a PhD in Public Theology. Between 2020 and 2022, he won a postdoctoral research grant in Sociology.  He authored and co-authored several books, and wrote more than thirty articles. He is a member of the Intercultural and Interconfessional Studies Centre, and Executive Editor at two journals indexed in international databases. His main areas of interest are in the realm of cultural, social, identity, and value evolution in the European space and beyond. He is also concerned with seeking solutions for the educational reform, and about how the Church/faith, values and Civil Society could model an ethic and functional ethos.