This article focuseso nd evelopments of integration policies in Germany,F rance,a nd Britain in the 2000s and aims to examine the increasing attention governments draw to religion. In this decade,all three nation states developednew integration strategies that purposefully try to involvereligion and faith groups.Faith communitieswere supposed to make asignificant contribution in promoting integration and community cohesion. Are these political strategies aform of instrumentalist use of religionfor political purposes or are they more likely ak ind of recognition of religion?F urther, the article aims at exploring how the respectivei ntegration policy varies,a long with particular institutional arrangements in different European countries.F or this propose thep aperc onducts a comparison between Germany,France,and Britain. AW eberian institutional analysis is conductedc ombined with aq ualitative content analysisof48government or government ordered documents. Theresults of this research indicatet hat the way in which governments cooperate with faith communitiesd iffers considerably in the three countries and is strongly connected to national institutional arrangements.Christine Brunn received her Dr. rer.pol. in Sociology at the University of Heidelberg in 2011. Herr esearch has focused on integration policym aking with particular regard to minority religion. Given her interest in E-Learning, she is currently working as atrainee at the Institut fürLerndienstleistungen (ILD) of Lübeck University of Applied Science (FHL). 1I ntroductionDuring the 2000s particularly Germany,Britain, and Franceincreasingly identified minority religions as al ink to implementi ntegration strategies.W ith the increasing interestinMuslims,but also other minority faith groups,asplatforms or mediums for integration measures,religion and religious lifestyles of migrants raised the attention of state agencies in all three cases.R eligious affiliation of migrants was no longer perceived only as abarrier to integration or as asource of social conflictbut as aseriousfactor in migrants self-conceptionand ameansto offer contact points for integration,social cohesion, and dialogue.