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Conference “The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself” (Paris, 8–9 June 2026)
Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today? On 8 and 9 June 2026, the Faculty of Theology of the Institut...
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100 Years of the PISAI: Call for Papers for the International Congress in Rome, 11–12 December 2026
PISAI, Rome. The year 2026 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), a training, study, and research institute dedicated to religious dialogue...
14/02/25
AGENDA
Marian devotion in Christianity and Islam
On Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM, the Catholic Institute of Paris is hosting a study day dedicated to Mary, a figure shared between Christians and Muslims. In a world where interfaith dialog...
NEWS
Diego Sarrió Cucarella, member of Pluriel and specialist in Islamic-Christian dialogue, appointed bishop in Algeria
Saturday, January 25, 2025. Pope Francis has appointed Father Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella as the new bishop of the Diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaïa in Algeria on January 25, 2025. President of the Pontifical I...
17/10/24
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Montreal: “Books in Christian and Muslim Religious Bookstores between Lyon and Montreal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of the Offer”
As part of the Jacques Cartier Dialogues 2024 at the University of Montreal, several researchers who are members of Pluriel will participate in a study day on October 17, 2024, focusing on books in Christia...
NEWS
Photo report: exploring the Lebanese religious diversity
Muslim diversity, Christian diversity: the program of the PLURIEL congress in Beirut from May 23 to 28 included many meetings to discover the religious plurality of Lebanon. Raphaël Georgy/Pluriel
DEADLINE : 28/02/21
CALL FOR PAPER
Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam: History & Archaeology
Call launched by Les Presses de l’Ifpo following an international round table organized on 4 and 5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) which highlighted the interest of a collective...
Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
Théologien et historien des religions, spécialiste du soufisme
Ziaka Angeliki
Associate Professor of Religion
Samir Arbache
Professeur en théologie et histoire des religions
Laurent Basanese
Membre officiel du Conseil pontifical pour le dialogue interreligieux, professeur à l’Université pontificale grégorienne de Rome
Souraya Bechealany
Lecturer – Researcher at the Faculty of Religious Sciences – USJ
Malek Chaïeb
Research fellow at CECR
Salim Daccache
Rector of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Doctor of Literature and Philosophy and of Education.
Issa Diab
Professor of Semitic Studies
Antoine Fleyfel
Director of the Institut Chrétiens d’Orient, Paris. Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Professor of Quranic exegesis
Geneviève Gobillot
Professor Emeritus, Specialisation in Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 3, Jean Moulin
Anna Hager
Chercheuse associée Post-doctorante Enseignante
Renee Hattar
Amir Jajé
Docteur en études orientales, spécialiste du chiisme.
Romain Louge
Doctorant en théologie à l’Université Catholique de Lyon
Claudio Monge
Directeur du DoStI, Centre d’Etudes Dominicains d’Istanbul
Hélène Rey
Nadia Saad
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Piotr Sękowski
Chercheur en études arabes et islamiques à l’Institut pontifical d’études arabes et d’islamologie (PISAI) de Rome
Roula Talhouk
Directrice de l’Institut d’études islamo-chrétiennes, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth. Professeur en théologie et anthropologie religieuse.
Michel Younès
Professeur en théologie et islamologie
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