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Houssame Bentabet

Researcher in sociology of religions and in Islamology, PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales de Paris (PSL Research University / EHESS).
Scientific work on “the dynamics of religious beliefs in modern societies”, in particular “the abandonment of religious belief in the Muslim field”, at the crossroads of sociology, social psychology and Islamology.

Consultant “Religious fact and secularism” (public institutions, private companies)

Rémy Leveau thesis prize 2019 (GIS-MOMM, IISMM, CNRS, BCC).

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Institut Catholique de Paris - France

Islam and Otherness (Paris)

In the global context of identity tensions, migratory flows, depreciation of the image of the Muslim world and its association to Daesh and al-Qaeda’s terrorist attacks, the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions in Paris intends to carry out a research on the capacity of Islam to maintain a constructive and peaceful relationship with […]

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Resources related toSecularism

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The secular movement in Lebanon 2006-2019

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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 historical debate on secularisation between F. Antun and M. Abduh.

  • Marco Demichelis

Full title : 'The historical debate on secularisation between F. Antun and M. Abduh. God's absolutism and Islam's irrationality as cornerstones of orientalist islamic-christian dispute during the N...

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God and man in the teachings of the anatolian alevis

  • Timo Güzelmansur

Volume 2 of the CIBEDO publication series With a preface by Karl Cardinal Lehmann The Alevis of Anatolia are considered another important group in Islam, alongside the Sunnis and Shiites. Neverthel...

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The corporate world and the challenge of religion. Crossed views from the Mediterranean area

  • Michel Younès

We are currently witnessing a significant growth in religious demands, which are increasingly interfering with professional life and have impacted the world of work. From the creation of a specific...

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Islam & Otherness. Proceedings of the Pluriel congress in Beirut

  • Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
  • Michel Younès
  • Roula Talhouk

Edited by Michel Younès, Ali Mostfa and Roula Talhouk “In a contemporary context marked by a growing tendency to lock oneself into oppositional logics, reflection on otherness in Islam opens ...

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Religion and Democracy

  • Wolfgang Palaver

"This article addresses mainly two widespread prejudices. The first claims that democracy flourishes only in a Christian culture, the second wants to keep religion out of politics to protect democr...

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Rethinking the Muslim-Christian living together in Lebanon / Amin Elias

  • Amin Elias

On the eve of the first centenary of the proclamation of the State of Greater Lebanon (September 1, 1920), this intervention proposes to expose and analyse the position of Muslims in Lebanon toward...

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Thinking Islam in Europe

  • Alberto Fabio Ambrosio

Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter : Raphaël Georgy With the collabor...