to 24/06/25 to 26/06/25

AGENDA

International Conference “Muslim Chaplaincy. Practice, Research and Recognition”

Switzerland. The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society is organizing an international conference titled “Muslim Chaplaincy: Practices, Research and Recognition” from June 24-26, 2025, at the Univer...

13/11/24

AGENDA

Online seminar “Religions and prostitution. The voices of women”

Seminar presented and moderated by Alessandro Ferrari, University of Insubria, Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11 am, Sant’Abbondio Cloister (room S.2.6) in Como and via videoconference. Speakers GRAZIA V...

NEWS

Switzerland / Launch of the project “Muslim organisations as social actors. 3”

The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society, an inter-faculty research and training centre at the University of Fribourg, is launching the third phase of its “OMAS” project under the direction of Pro...

Publication

Conversaciones transformadoras. Una metodología para el diálogo islamo-cristiano en el campo del pensamiento social religioso

Inaugural Speech of the Academic year at the Faculty of Theology of Granada, Spain

Islamic-theological studies with a focus on “Islam and society” (Fribourg)

The Swiss Centre “Islam and Society” runs a doctoral programme “Islam and Society: Islamic-theological studies” designed to study specific, multidisciplinary themes and to support do...

HEST Cluster: Christian-Muslim Relations (Europe)

Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) programme aims to bring Higher Education institutions and Social Centres of the Society of Jesus in Europe together so that they can contribute to the real ...

Islam and society in contemporary Spain (Granada)

Because the presence of Muslim communities in Spain is relatively recent, and because there is not a long tradition of theological study of Islam, we want to start our dialogue with the Islamic tradition by...

publication

Muslim Social Action in Europe: Community Engagement, Charitable Contribution, and Religious Activism in France, Switzerland, and Great Britain.

• Baptiste Brodard

publication

Exploring Islamic Social Work. Between Community and the Common Good

• Hansjörg Schmid

article

Innovative social work practices by Islamic grassroots organizations in Switzerland

• Baptiste Brodard

In Switzerland, specific issues related to Muslims have recently emerged in public debates. In addition to the question of radicalization, Muslim migrant populations are affected by social problems such as ...

publication

A Response to Public Discourse? Intracultural Islamic Social Work in a Plural Society

• Hansjörg Schmid
• Baptiste Brodard

videos

Islamic Reformist Thought in Western Europe: Zakat for Non-Muslims as an Illustration

• Baptiste Brodard

Islamic reformism is an increasingly popular concept in Europe. However, it refers to distinct currents of thought. Baptiste Brodard proposes to explore a particular current of Islamic reformism that is dis...

videos

A comparative approach to the concepts of the common good and “maslaha”

• Gonzalo Villagrán

Conference of Gonzalo VILLAGRAN, at the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME Abstract Recently, Afifi Al-Akiti and Joshua Horden proposed the development of a new field of study called “A Compar...

publication

Transformative Conversations. A methodology for Christian-Muslim dialogue in the field of religious social thought

• Gonzalo Villagrán

formations

Master in Christian-Muslim relations

In September 2007, the Institute of Islamic-Christian Studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut opened a “Master in Islamic-Christian Relations” in Arabic. In September 2011, this course is d...