The research group seeks to clarify the mechanisms of fundamentalism and its various expressions. Very often, ideological and ritualistic orders are so interwoven that they lead to community identifications.
Professor of theology and Islamology, he leads the Center for the Study of Cultures and Religions. He co-directed the university diploma, “Religion, Religious Freedom and Secularism” from 2013 to 2019. He coordinates Pluriel. Coordinator of the seminar “Religions and Businesses”.
In 2020, he became deputy director of the Research Unit “CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanities”, UCLy. On September 1, 2023, he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Theology at the Catholic University of Lyon for a three-year term.
Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth - Lebanon
Comparative study of university curricula on religious pluralism and dialogue in Lebanon
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The corporate world and the challenge of religion. Crossed views from the Mediterranean area
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
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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Christian Thought, Muslim Thought and Societal Issues: Launch of the “Theologies in Dialogue” Chair
On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, this inaugural conference presents a new chair entitled “Theologies in Dialogue” at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon. The spe...
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Islam and Belonging. Proceedings of the PLURIEL 2nd International Congress
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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Scriptural hermeneutics in the 8th-9th centuries, the stakes for an Islamo-Christian dialogue
First lines of the introduction “Hermeneutics is one of the privileged places where the question of relation to the text arises. In Christianity as in Islam, the complexity lies in the way to...
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Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim theologians on how the former view Islam and ...
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For a systemic theology of Christian-Islamic dialogue
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Michel Younès, coordinator of PLURIEL, professor of theology...
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The mystical experience and its impact on the Christian-Muslim dialogue
Edited by Michel Younès Not being the object of its own quest, mysticism aims, according to the figures and the cultural and religious contexts, at different realities: the search for a personal Go...
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Being yourself through the other. How I grew up in a context of diversity
“This book retraces the itinerary of Michel Younès in which he shows that otherness is part of identity. In a context where cultural and religious diversity is no longer an option, he seeks t...
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Islam in France, in the image of the Tawhid editions
Created in 1987 in the footsteps of the ‘French Union of Young Muslims’, the Tawhid publishing house was launched by second-generation Muslims who often returned to Islam. Tawhid was ab...
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‘Inimitable’ Koran ?
Interview with Pr. Tobias Specker, professor of Catholic Theology in the light of Islam at Sankt Georgen Graduate school of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt, Germany, about his book : Gottes Wort...
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Azharis, Representations of Christianity, and the Vagaries of Islamic-Christian Dialogue (1930s-2020s)
Dominique Avon, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, traces the evolution of the discourse of the ulama of al-Azhar on Christianity since the 1930s. Confronted with the colo...
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The document on human fraternity: a new horizon for Islamic-Christian dialogue? (Italian)
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 r...
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Muslim Theologies of Religious Pluralism. Proceedings of the Colloquium Held on November 20 and 21, 2021
The laboratory of the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions of Paris (Theologicum, ICP) presents here the outcome of four years of research on the theme of religious pluralism in Islam. Wh...
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The historical debate on secularisation between F. Antun and M. Abduh.
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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Heterodox and non-Muslim in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī
This study addresses the question of how to view and understand religious otherness from a Muslim perspective, in the light of one of its greatest thinkers. Starting from a questioning of the statu...
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The Challenge of Islam. Christian Approaches
Does Islam belong to Europe? How should the West relate to Islam? Not only the West, but also Christian theology has difficulties with Islam. It wavers between a purely religious view from the outs...
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Islam & Otherness. Proceedings of the Pluriel congress in Beirut
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 ...