RESILIENCE is a European cross-disciplinary research infrastructure serving the study of religion in all academic fields. It connects research centers, data holders and services distributed all over Europe and creates new instruments and services for its scientific community. The mission of RESILIENCE is to serve research by improving access to digital as well as physical data on religion and to advanced tools, training, existing research infrastructures and expertise for new, digital, and data-oriented research on religion on a global level. RESILIENCE facilitates high-quality research to improve knowledge on and understanding of religion. For this purpose, RESILIENCE brings together scholars and professionals, and facilities catalyzing new competencies, knowledge, approaches, and impact within the scientific domain of research on religion. It also establishes a system of permanent exchange with users on all levels of research experience and it orients its services strictly to user needs across Europe. RESILIENCE is composed of a digital environment and a physical network of facilities, which are located in Albania; Israel; Italy; France; Germany; Belgium; Bulgaria; the Netherlands; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Poland; Greece. More recently, the consortium has been joined also by facilities located in Slovenia and Georgia. RESILIENCE strives for open and FAIR access to digital and physical resources from Europe and beyond and offers researchers the use of valuable distributed data, tools, training, and services via a single point of access (virtual) as well as by discovering collections and having meetings with experts through on-site visits. In the long term, RESILIENCE aims at increasing and systematising inter- and multidisciplinary activities to create larger scientific aggregations capable of facilitating further exchanges between the various super-specialised and overarching research approaches to religion; assembling results and paving the way for more effective research (investing money to produce knowledge) and more innovation (investing knowledge to produce money); offering access to a platform supplying data, tools and expertise for the Religious Studies community; supporting scholars in bringing knowledge about religion back to the academic and public debate, on topics such as religious rights and freedoms, violence, contrasting hermeneutics; making expertise and knowledge on Religious Studies accessible to public actors. RESILIENCE primarily serves the research community of Religious Studies, which is conceived here as the full range of scientific disciplines that enable the study of religion. With its experts and the support to peer-researched, data-oriented knowledge on religion, it also serves societal actors, including religious communities, governments, decision makers, individuals, and institutions.