Following the research work on the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Common Coexistence signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyeb in Abu Dhabi on 4 February 2019, the Roman group of Pluriel Pontifical Gregorian University – PISAI wishes to continue the reflection with an interdisciplinary approach to […]
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Laurent Basanese
Originally from Lyon and an engineer by training, Father Basanese joined the Jesuits in 1997. He holds a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic studies (PISAI) and a doctorate in the sciences of religions and systems of thought (EPHE). Since 2018 he has been a professor at the Faculty of Missiology of the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he founded and directed the Centre for Interreligious Studies (2015-2021). He also re-launched the Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations Series which he directed between 2018 and 2021.
He was appointed in February 2020 as Consultor of the Commission for Religious Relations with Muslims to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and since September 2021 he is an official of the same Dicastery.
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Pontificia Università Gregoriana - Italy
Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica - Italy
For a new Mediterranean. Space for dialogue and prophecies of peace
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The document on human fraternity: an interdisciplinary reflection
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
- Laurent Basanese
The volume, published in the series “Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations” (No. 14), brings together contributions from ten international scholars on the Document on Human Fr...
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When Religions Contribute to Education for a more Fraternal Humanity
- Laurent Basanese
What resources are religions endowed with to educate for a more fraternal humanity? To respond to this question, a study day was organised on February 24th 2020 at the Pontifical Gregorian Universi...
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Islam and Belonging. Proceedings of the PLURIEL 2nd International Congress
- Michel Younès
- Anna Hager
- Laurent Basanese
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
After its first international congress in Lyon from 6 to 9 September 2016 on the theme “Islam in the Plural: Faith, Thought, Society”[1], the current study brings together the proceedin...
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Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations – N°10 – The challenge of religions
- Laurent Basanese
The publication of the Series Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations has been restarted. "The Series Interreligious and Intercultural Investigations" started in 1999. Its purpose is to ...
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The document on human fraternity: a new horizon for Islamic-Christian dialogue? (Italian)
- Adnane Mokrani
- Laurent Basanese
- Valentino Cottini
Lecturers : Adnane Mokrani, P. Laurent Basanese S.J. Moderator: Valentino Cottini Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, April 8th, 2019 This conference marks the launch of the research grou...
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Retrospective: Congress 2018 “Islam and Belonging”
- Laurent Basanese
Retrospective on the Second International Congress of PLURIEL that has been held at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Roma, in June 2018, on the theme “Islam and Belonging”. Excerp...
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Congress “Islam and Belonging”: synthesis by the Jesuit theologian Laurent Basanèse
- Laurent Basanese
Synthesis of the second International Congrès of PLURIEL in Rome, by Laurent BASANÈSE, director of the Gregorian Center for Inter-religious Studies
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