Beate Bengard
Born in 1978, Beate Bengard is an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Autonomous Faculty of Theology of the University of Geneva and a member of the Romand Institute of Systematic Theology and Ethics (IRSE).
After studying Protestant theology and French literature in Dresden, Leipzig, Lausanne, and Paris, she obtained a joint doctorate from the universities of Strasbourg and Leipzig. Her thesis was awarded the University of Strasbourg Prize.
From 2007 to 2021, she taught systematic theology in Leipzig, Greifswald, and Basel. During her postdoctoral studies, she was a researcher at the Fonds Ricoeur in Paris (2014-2015) and a collaborator on the INTER-RELIGIO project at the University of Basel (2017-2019).
Her research focuses on the theology of religions, ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, philosophy of religions, Christian anthropology, and eschatology. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on these topics.
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Understanding Salafism
- Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Published in 2022 by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer) in the series The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy, this book by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui, professor at Sorbonne Par...
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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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Islam Seen through the Work of Aziz al-Azmeh
- Wasim Salman
Abstract Published in Arabic in issue 50 (2024) of Islamochristiana (PISAI, released in April 2025), this essay by Wasim Salman, president of PISAI and director of the journal, examines the rela...
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Islamic Visions of Jesus: Revelation, Prophecy, and Eschatology
- Antonio Cuciniello
Abstract Published in the collective volume Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem, edited by Emma O'Donnell Polyakov (Blo...
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Questions on Islamic Soteriology in Early Islam
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "Cuestiones sobre la soteriología islámica en el islam primitivo" in the collective volume Riesgos y fidelidades. Miradas teológicas para un mundo plu...
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The Uncreated Muslim Qur’an and the Eternally Begotten Christian Logos
- Jaume Flaquer Garcia
Abstract Published under the original title "El Corán musulmán increado y el Logos cristiano eternamente engendrado" in the monographic section Logos, Agape, Sarx. Una dialógica cristiana of iss...
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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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The First Council of Nicaea (325) and the Christian-Muslim Dialogue on God’s Unity and Trinity
- Dirk Ansorge
Abstract Published under the original title "Das erste Konzil von Nizäa (325) und der christlich-muslimische Dialog über Gottes Einheit und Dreifaltigkeit" in issue 2/2025 of CIBEDO-Beiträge, th...