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Call for Papers: The Abu Dhabi Declaration and New Forms of Citizenship

Call for Papers. The Research Center on Religions, Law and Economies in the Mediterranean Area (REDESM) at the University of Insubria, in collaboration with the Pluriel network and the Anawati Chair at the ...

04/11/24

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Webinar “Religions and Public Order: Challenges of Pluralism and Constitutional Identity”

“Public Order of Religions” is the title of the seminar scheduled for Monday 4 November from 2:30 to 4:30 pm at the University of Insubria, in Como (Via Sant’Abbondio 12). The event is org...

to 15/07/25 to 23/07/25

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Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”

As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...

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Emmanuel Pisani: “The thought of al-Ghazali provides a basis for freedom of conscience”

Interview. On the occasion of the publication of his thesis about Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, which won the Mohamed Arkoun Prize in 2016, Emmanuel Pisani, director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies i...

DEADLINE : 15/09/21

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Religions and Freedom of speech

Conference organized by Lyon catholic University on May, 9th and 10th, 2022 Présentation Le 16 octobre 2020, Samuel Paty professeur de l’Éducation Nationale, perdait la vie sous les coups d’...

Comparative study on religious freedom across the two Mediterranean shores (Como and Varese)

The Research Centre “Religion, Law and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (“Religioni, Diritti ed Economie nello Spazio Mediterraneo” – REDESM), established within the University of Insubria, aims to foster...

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From regulating religious sound to transforming it into light: public, legal and architectural debates on the adhān

Paper presented at the fifth international congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam (Pluriel), held in Cordoba from 10 to 14 February 2026 on the theme “Ethics and Aesthetics in Islam...

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Religious minorities and spiritual assistance. Reflections on the project “Atlas of religious or belief minority rights” in the European Union

• Ilaria Valenzi

Abstract Developed within the multilevel system of legal sources, the category of “religious minority” takes on particular significance within the European Union, where a shared system of protec...

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“Inclusive Citizenship, the Right to a Place of Worship and Everyday Peace”, by Antonio Angelucci

• Antonio Angelucci

In an article published in the Italian journal Coscienza e Libertà (no. 69, 2025), Antonio Angelucci, associate professor of law and religion at the University of Insubria, examines the connection between i...

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Public order and religious family rights. Sustainability and limits of an evolving legal relationship

• Ilaria Valenzi

Abstract The public-order clause, which safeguards the fundamental principles of the legal order, is today tested by the circulation of family models rooted in religious legal systems. Ilaria Valenzi analys...

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Freedom of conscience, a contested yet resilient right

• Dominique Avon

Rome. In a conference given on November 28, 2024, at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Professor Dominique Avon from the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris traced the complex h...

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Speaking freely in Islam

• Hamadi Redissi

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Religious minorities between the Mediterranean shores: a study of the status of religious minorities in the Mediterranean context (REMiMEsO) – Final Report

• Alessandro Ferrari

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From the Declaration “Nostra Aetate” to the Document of Abu Dhabi: Reexamining a Historical and Theological Trajectory in the Catholic Approach to Islamic-Christian Dialogue

• Jean-Jacques Pérennès

Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue, from the Nostra Aetate...

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Exclusively for Adherents of ‘Divinely Revealed’ Religions?

• Mohamed Gamal Ali

How did the preparatory work for the Egyptian constitutions discuss issues of freedom of religion and belief? « The term “divinely revealed religions” is used in the constitution, laws, and some judicial ru...

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The authoritarian republic. Islam in France and the Republican illusion

• Haoues Seniguer

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Religious Pluralism in Post-“Arab Spring” Morocco

• Youssef Boutahar

Title of the lecture : “Re-problematizing the Religious Majority-Minority Dialectics in Post-Arab Spring Morocco: Between Subalternity and Digital Disobedience” Given the debate currently prevai...

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The legal status of non-Muslims in Algeria. The example of evangelicals and Ahmadis.

• Zohra Aziadé Zemirli

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University degree “Religion, freedom of religion, secularization (laïcité)”

University degree jointly delivered by the University of Lyon 3 and the Catholic University of Lyon, in partnership with the French Institute of Muslim Civilization and the Conseil Régional du Culte Musulma...

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The management of the religious fact in companies and organizations

This training is aimed at managers, in order to enable them to master the legal framework of religion and to adopt a managerial posture adapted to the situations encountered. 2 consecutive days on June 24 a...

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University Diploma Interculturality, Secularism, Religions

The training “Interculturality, secularity, religions”, created in 2008 within the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris, in partnership with the Central Of...