The Swiss Centre “Islam and Society” runs a doctoral programme “Islam and Society: Islamic-theological studies” designed to study specific, multidisciplinary themes and to support doctoral students in research projects related to Islamic studies and society in the Swiss context. Multidisciplinary approach It is a research and training programme with both specific and transversal themes. It […]
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Baptiste Brodard
Baptiste Brodard obtained his Ph.D. in religious studies at the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) where he wrote a thesis on Islamic social work in response to social problems such as exclusion and identity-based conflicts in Western societies. The thesis’ field is the interface between sociology and Islamic theology in the contemporary context.
Along with his academic cursus, he traveled to nearly 50 countries worldwide with the aim of meeting Muslim communities and scholars. He focused on social change, social actions and cultural issues. These trips gave him a strong cultural awareness of various communities and societies.
At a professional level, he worked few years as a social worker in prisons in Switzerland, as a childhood protection agent and as a adults’ trainer. He was also employed by the United Nations in Algeria as a programme and projects manager, where he was in charge among other things of a national detainees rehabilitation programme. More recently, he took part to an academic research in the UK investigating Islamic organizations and their network and political inclusion.
He is currently preparing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico, and at the same time is engaged in theological reflection by being associated with the Maqasid Institute in the United States.
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Centre suisse islam et société - Switzerland
Islamic-theological studies with a focus on “Islam and society” (Fribourg)
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article
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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publication
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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Islamic Reformist Thought in Western Europe: Zakat for Non-Muslims as an Illustration
- Baptiste Brodard
Islamic reformism is an increasingly popular concept in Europe. However, it refers to distinct currents of thought. Baptiste Brodard proposes to explore a particular current of Islamic reformism th...
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Exploring Islamic Social Work. Between Community and the Common Good
- Hansjörg Schmid
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it exp...
article
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...
publication
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 ...
videos
Islamic Reformist Thought in Western Europe: Zakat for Non-Muslims as an Illustration
- Baptiste Brodard
Islamic reformism is an increasingly popular concept in Europe. However, it refers to distinct currents of thought. Baptiste Brodard proposes to explore a particular current of Islamic reformism th...
videos
A comparative approach to the concepts of the common good and “maslaha”
- Gonzalo Villagrán
Conference of Gonzalo VILLAGRAN, at the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME Abstract Recently, Afifi Al-Akiti and Joshua Horden proposed the development of a new field of study cal...
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Transformative Conversations. A methodology for Christian-Muslim dialogue in the field of religious social thought
- Gonzalo Villagrán
In this book, Prof. Villagran proposes to enter the debate on comparative theology, a trend proposed by the American theologian Frank Clooney, to show its possibilities as a theological methodology...