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Jamel Khermimoun

Jamel Khermimoun is a geographer with a PhD from Paris-Sorbonne University (2006) and works as a lecturer-researcher and consultant in the social sciences and humanities. He has been a researcher at Pluriel since September 2021, and a member of the Expert Advisory Group of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology (FORE), at the Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, since April 2022.

His pluridisciplinary research focuses on the relationships between identity, culture and spirituality in Europe and in modern societies, as well as on environmental and sustainable development issues and their spatial, societal and ethical dimensions.

He is the author of Politiques urbaines et image du territoire (L’Harmattan, 2008), L’identité heureuse (Coëtquen éditions, 2014), Ethique et environnement (L’Harmattan, 2016), Islam in Modern Societies (Westbow Press, 2018) and L’essentiel sur l’islam (Albouraq, 2022). He is also a member of the editorial board of The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society (Common Ground Research Networks, University of Illinois) and a reviewer for The New Directions in the Humanities Journal Collection.

Latest article, published in The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society: Environmental Crisis, Concept of Sustainable Development, Islamic Values, and a Global Alternative.

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