Jean-Claude Basset
Born in 1950 in Switzerland, Jean-Claude Basset is a retired pastor of the Protestant Church of Geneva and a theologian specialising in interreligious dialogue. He studied in Lausanne, Strasbourg, Bangalore (India) and Harvard (United States).
A missionary pastor in Tehran and then Djibouti, he later served in Geneva, notably in the parishes of Châtelaine and Cointrin-Avanchets, and directed the Protestant Centre for Studies of Geneva. In 1989 he defended at the University of Lausanne a doctoral thesis in theology, published as Le dialogue interreligieux. Chance ou déchéance de la foi ? (Cerf, 1996), regarded as a French-language reference in the field.
Co-founder in 1992 of the Geneva Interreligious Platform, of which he remains a leading figure, he also taught religious studies and Islamic studies at the Protestant Faculty of Theology of the University of Lausanne. His other works include Couples islamo-chrétiens. Promesse ou impasse ? (1990), Panorama des religions (2004) and Chrétiens et diversité religieuse (2011).
He is a member of the “Christian Theology and Dialogues” and “Religions and Societies” groups of the Master’s programme of the Al Mowafaqa Ecumenical Institute of Theology (IOTAM, Rabat).
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- Roberta Collu Moran
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- David Marshall
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