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Mediterranean Chair Summer University: Five Cities, Five Interreligious Perspectives

From 30 June to 4 July 2026, PISAI hosted in Rome the summer university of the Mediterranean, Religions and Societies Chair, led by Dominique Avon, the first holder of this French-language chair hosted by P...

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REDESM at the Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion

On 30 June 2026, as part of the ninth annual conference of the European Academy of Religion (EuARe), held at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, the REDESM research centre, a partner institution of Plurie...

to 08/06/26 to 09/06/26

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Conference “The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself” (Paris, 8–9 June 2026)

Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today? On 8 and 9 June 2026, the Faculty of Theology of the Institut...

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Christian–Muslim Dialogue in Focus: symposium of the Higher Education for Social Transformation research group in Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria. From October 29–31, 2024, the Faculty of Theology at the University of Innsbruck hosted the Kircher Network’s Higher Education for Social Transformation (HEST) workshop on Christia...

01/04/25

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The Abu Dhabi Declaration on Human Fraternity: A Counter-Model for Interreligious Dialogue?

Lyon, France. On Tuesday, April 1st 2025 at 6:30 PM, the Catholic University of Lyon welcomes Cardinal Jean-Paul Vesco, Archbishop of Algiers, for a conference entitled “The Abu Dhabi Declaration on H...

14/02/25

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Marian devotion in Christianity and Islam

On Friday, February 14, 2025, from 10 AM to 6 PM, the Catholic Institute of Paris is hosting a study day dedicated to Mary, a figure shared between Christians and Muslims. In a world where interfaith dialog...

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Diego Sarrió Cucarella, member of Pluriel and specialist in Islamic-Christian dialogue, appointed bishop in Algeria

Saturday, January 25, 2025. Pope Francis has appointed Father Diego Ramón Sarrió Cucarella as the new bishop of the Diocese of Laghouat-Ghardaïa in Algeria on January 25, 2025. President of the Pontifical I...

13/11/24

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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...

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...

17/10/24

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Montreal: “Books in Christian and Muslim Religious Bookstores between Lyon and Montreal: A Quantitative and Qualitative Study of the Offer”

As part of the Jacques Cartier Dialogues 2024 at the University of Montreal, several researchers who are members of Pluriel will participate in a study day on October 17, 2024, focusing on books in Christia...

25/09/24

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Conference “Christian Thought, Muslim Thought, and Societal Issues” with Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Launch event for the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair on the theme “Christian thought, Muslim thought and societal issues” on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM at the Carnot campus of...

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Comparative Theology Europe (CTE) Conference on “The Special Relationships of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as a Challenge for Comparative Theology”

In the American context, most comparative theologians developed their field of research out of the encounter of Christianity and the Eastern religions. In centers of comparative theology in Europe, for exam...

to 16/09/21 to 18/09/21

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International conference “The itinerant prophets. Rewritings, appropriations and metamorphoses of prophetic figures in Islamic sources”

At Institut du Monde Arabe and Sorbonne Université, Paris Bringing together scholars of Islam studies, literature and history, ‘The Itinerant Prophets’ aims to shed new light on the place prophe...

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Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas and the Pluriel working group on AI-assisted interreligious dialogue

• Wael Saleh

Text by Wael Saleh, researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and member of the Pluriel coordination committee. The simultaneous appearance of Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, ...

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For a Christian Theology of Religions

• Michel Younès

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Hospitality, power and interreligious dialogue in Naguib Mahfouz’s “Children of the Alley”

• Gabriel Khairallah

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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Islam and Fraternity: Impact and Prospects of the Abu Dhabi Declaration

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God Is with Us: How Islam and Judaism Justify Violence

• Haoues Seniguer

publication

Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Encounter

• Klaus von Stosch
• Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar

videos

The History of the Quran according to Muslim Sources

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

Professors Shady Nasser from Harvard and Gabriel Reynolds from the University of Notre Dame explore the history of the revelation and compilation of the Quran according to traditional Muslim sources. They d...

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Jesus in Recent Qur’an Translations | The Jesus of the Qur’an vs. the Jesus of the New Testament

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

In this video, Gabriel Said Reynolds discusses the presentation of Jesus in the Qur’an and how it is interpreted and rendered in English by recent translations of the Qur’an. I show that recent ...

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Strangers with God. A Theology of Hospitality in the Three Abrahamic Religions

• Claudio Monge

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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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Original Sin and the Qur’an

• Gabriel Said Reynolds

The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the author a...

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Fratelli tutti: The Dream of God for a More Human World

• Laurent Basanese

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University Diploma Religious facts – Religion, religions

Understanding the religious phenomenon is one of the major keys to understanding cultures and the complexity of the world. It appears more and more as an antidote to religious fundamentalism as well as to t...