Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
Born in France in 1977, Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan is a theologian and anthropologist and, since 2023, dean of the Theologicum, the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP). The first woman and first layperson to hold this office, she is a professor there and directed the Higher Institute for Ecumenical Studies (ISEO) from 2020 to 2023.
Holding doctorates in social anthropology and ethnology (EHESS, 2004) and in Catholic theology (ICP, 2019), she received the Jean et Maurice de Pange Prize in 2020 for her thesis “The dialogue of Trinitarian love: perspectives opened by Dumitru Stăniloae.” A specialist in dogmatic and Trinitarian theology, she also works on contemporary Orthodox theology and the theology of religions.
Her research in religious anthropology focuses on Shiism and the Eastern Christian communities. Among Islam-related topics, she takes an interest in contemporary currents of Islam, Islam in France, and Christian-Muslim dialogue. She notably co-edited, with Henri de La Hougue, the collective volume À l’écoute de l’autre. Penser l’altérité au cœur du dialogue interreligieux (Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2015).
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Anthropology of Religions
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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion
- Guillaume Chatagny
Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title "Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion", this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...
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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...
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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...
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Photographing Ordinary Islam
- Guillaume Chatagny
What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 w...
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Religious Tourism and Sustainability in the MENA Region
- Antonio Angelucci
Edited by Antonio Angelucci, Flavia Cortelezzi and Alessandro Cupri (Ledizioni, 2025), this volume offers a theoretical and methodological framework for religious tourism, a continuously expanding ...
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“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l'esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropol...
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Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
- Leïla Tauil
On the two Mediterranean shores, women’s agency is articulated by new social and legal actors who face the religious factor both as an asset and as a hindrance. This book explores how female ...
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What does the reformation of religion mean?
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious re...