Anthropology of Religions
NewsResearch groupsResearcherResourcesTraining
-
30/09/26
AGENDA
“Islam in Asia”: IISMM’s 2026-2027 public lecture series
The Institute for the Study of Islam and Muslim Societies (IISMM, EHESS/CNRS), directed by Dominique Avon, opens its new annual public lecture series on September 30, 2026, in partnership with the Universit...
-
to 06/11/26 to 07/11/26
AGENDA
“Ruling Bodies”: Islamic Law, Embodiment, and the Anthropology of Normativity
On 6 and 7 November 2026, the Paderborner Institut für Islamische Theologie (PIIT), in cooperation with the Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK) of Paderborn University, hosts t...
-
NEWS
A new SCIS project on gender justice in Muslim associations in Switzerland
Launched in May 2026, the project “Gender Justice as a Resource for the Participation of Muslims in Switzerland” aims to study gender relations within Muslim associations in Switzerland. It is l...
-
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...
-
14/02/25
AGENDA
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...
-
NEWS
Towards a Cosmopolitan Ethics in the Muslim World?
Interview. Saudi researcher Abdulrahman Khalid AlKhunayfir, a postdoctoral fellow at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo, traces his intellectual journey that led him to study the history o...
-
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...
-
17/10/24
AGENDA
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...
NewsResearch groupsResearcherResourcesTraining
NewsResearch groupsResearcherResourcesTraining
-
Cédric Baylocq
Anthropologue, Chercheur associé à l’Institut de Science et Théologie des Religions, Institut catholique de Paris
-
Michel Boivin
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
-
Xavier Gravend-Tirole
Professeur adjoint en éthique et spiritualité à l’Institut d’études religieuses de l’Université de Montréal
-
Nour Farra Haddad
Chargée de cours en anthropologie religieuse et chercheuse à l’Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
-
Renee Hattar
-
Ysé Tardan Masquelier
Historienne des religions, spécialiste de l’hindouisme et du yoga
-
Nasser Michaëlene-Gabryel
Fondateur de Saint Louis Université méditerranéenne des nations ; directeur de recherche pluridisciplinaire du laboratoire LAHRA-INTELEN.
-
Roberta Collu Moran
Anthropologist and documentary filmmaker
-
Géraldine Mossière
-
Sepideh Parsapajouh
Anthropologue, chargée de recherche au CNRS (Centre d’études en sciences sociales du religieux, CéSor-EHESS)
-
Raja Sakrani
Senior Researcher and Scientific Coordinator, Horizon Europe project JCILC (University of Bonn)
-
Thom Sicking
Membre du Centre de recherche en sciences religieuses (CRSR), Faculté des sciences religieuses, Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
-
Roula Talhouk
Directrice de l’Institut d’études islamo-chrétiennes, Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth. Professeur en théologie et anthropologie religieuse.
-
Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan
Doyenne du Theologicum (Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses), Institut catholique de Paris ; théologienne et anthropologue
NewsResearch groupsResearcherResourcesTraining
-
article
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, ...
-
publication
Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam
- Roberta Collu Moran
-
article
A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam
- Ida Zilio-Grandi
Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted relativ...
-
publication
Photographing Ordinary Islam
- Guillaume Chatagny
-
publication
Religious Tourism and Sustainability in the MENA Region
- Antonio Angelucci
-
article
“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l’esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologi...
-
publication
Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space
- Leïla Tauil
-
videos
What does the reformation of religion mean?
Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious reform within t...
-
publication
Strangers with God. A Theology of Hospitality in the Three Abrahamic Religions
- Claudio Monge
-
article
“A Religious Cosmopolitanism: The City of Qom in the Mirror of Transnational Circulations”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the collective volume Un Moyen-Orient ordinaire (eds. Thierry Boissière and Yoann Morvan, Diacritiques Éditions, 2022), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), devotes a chapter...
-
article
“The Power of Place, the Mediation of the Text: Anthropological Remarks on the Pious Visit to Karbalā”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In the journal Studia Islamica (Brill, 2021), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), offers an anthropological analysis of the ziyāra, the pious visit to Shia holy places, focusin...
-
article
“The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh
- Sepideh Parsapajouh
In a thematic issue of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World (Brill, 2020) that she co-edited, Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropologist at the CNRS (CéSor-EHESS), studies the topography of corp...
NewsResearch groupsResearcherResourcesTraining
-
formations
Bachelor in Islamic-Christian Studies
Given the growing importance of interfaith dialogue as an entry point for achieving peace and promoting the values of coexistence in many societies, particularly in Lebanon and the Arab world, the Institute...
-
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...