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Benjamin Latouche

Born in 1982 in France, Benjamin Latouche is a Catholic priest and researcher, member of the Islamology laboratory at the Center for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR) at the Catholic University of Lyon.

After obtaining a Master’s degree in “Social Development Strategies” from Lille in 2006, he continued his theological studies at the Catholic University of Lyon, where he earned a Master’s degree in 2019, as well as a University Diploma in “Religion, Religious Freedom, and Secularism.”

His research primarily focuses on local Islamic authority figures in France, a subject on which he contributed to the collective work “Authority in Islam, What Regulation?” (Peuple Libre, 2023). He is also interested in interreligious dialogue, as evidenced by his work on the Ismerie Mission and his article “The Pursuit of Common Good, a Resource for Islamic-Christian Dialogue” (Chemins de dialogue, 2020).

Alongside his research activities, he has served as parish priest of Saint-Vincent de l’Hermitage since 2021 and co-directs the diocesan formation in Valence. He regularly participates in international conferences, notably at the Pluriel congress “Islam and Fraternity” in Abu Dhabi (2024).

His scientific approach is characterized by a transdisciplinary methodology, combining Christian theology and Islamic-Christian dialogue, with a particular interest in Catholic Social Teaching and questions of secularism.

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Université catholique de Lyon - France

Centre d'études des cultures et des religions, UCLy - France

Authority and Regulation in Islam (Lyon)

After a research programme on religious, Islamic and Biblical fundamentalism, and a deconstructivist approach to fundamentalism, we thought it was important to approach the notion of authority in link with religion, especially in Islamic context. Persons with authority or identified places of authority are not a simple process. This is all the more true in the Sunni Muslim tradition, the absence of a designation by the Prophet of an institution willing to regulate the religious questions will open the way to a plurality of modalities that may be of theological or theological-political nature.

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Islam and Otherness: Contextualizations, Transformations, and Influences

From a cross-section of dogmas, discourses, doctrines and reference texts, the contributions aim to examine, from a specific angle of approach (philosophical, theological, political, religious, anthropological, historical), the plurality of forms, places and angles of thought that make it possible to consider the normative values that govern the relationship with the other.

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