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Anja Zalta
Anja Zalta is an Associate Professor for Sociology of Religion at the Sociology Department, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and author of many articles on religious traditions and identities, Islam in Slovenia and in the Balkans, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue, and the role of monotheistic religions (Judaism Christianity, Islam) in the European cultural and religious history.
Between 2004 and 2006 she was periodically living in Konya, Turkey, where she was conducting a research on secularism in Turkish society. In 2013 she has received a Turkish research grant. She was researching religious (Christian) minorities in Istanbul and Tur Abdin region in the South-Eastern part of Turkey. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a Visiting Researcher at the Nan Tien Institute in Wollongong, Australia (topic: inter-religious dialogue and conflict transformation).
Her current research is focused on the question of (religious) minorities and human rights, as well as the rights of women in the monotheistic religions.
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Islam and democracy
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“House of agreement”: the islamic tradition of Bosniaks and its european-ness
- Anja Zalta
Conference of Anja ZALTA during the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME. The syntagma “house of agreement” was coined by former Bosnian reisu-l-ulema Mustafa Ceric in his “Dec...
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Does the pandemic affect radicalisation?
- Patrice Brodeur
Collaboration between Canadian and French researchers in the framework of the Centre Jacques Cartier talks, promoting partnerships between the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Quebec.
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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019
- Amin Elias
It was in 2006 that the secular idea (al-‘almâniyya), which the master Boutros al-Bustanî forged in 1861 in his journal Nafîr Sûriyâ, took a political and militant form, when a number of acti...
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The challenges of religious visibility in the liberal public space
Western modernity has engaged the religious question, over the past thirty years in processes that show an increased interaction between religiosity, visibility and urban public space. At a time wh...
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Religious Traditions in the Face of the Crisis of the Liberal System: The Case of Islam
- Paolo Branca
- Antonio Cuciniello
Proceedings of the conference organised by the Cathoilic University of Milan on October 9th, 2019. Abstract : Religions have regained a considerable role in the public space, to an extent that ...
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Religious minorities in France
- Karim Ifrak
Edited by Anne-Laure Zwilling This unique book, bringing together nearly 80 sociologists, ethnologists, anthropologists, historian, wants to allow a better knowledge of the religious groups present...
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Innovative social work practices by Islamic grassroots organizations in Switzerland
- Baptiste Brodard
In Switzerland, specific issues related to Muslims have recently emerged in public debates. In addition to the question of radicalization, Muslim migrant populations are affected by social problems...
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A Response to Public Discourse? Intracultural Islamic Social Work in a Plural Society
- Hansjörg Schmid
- Baptiste Brodard
As the public discourse on Islam is strongly influenced by the issue of radicalisation, the topic of prevention is gaining in importance and legitimacy. While the Swiss welfare state leaves little ...
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Muslim students at school
- Antonio Cuciniello
Original title: Studenti musulmani a scuola What questions do children and young people, especially the ‘second generation’, who profess the Islamic religion pose to Italian schools? Ho...