CALL FOR PAPER

Call for Papers: The Abu Dhabi Declaration and New Forms of Citizenship

Call for Papers. The Research Center on Religions, Law and Economies in the Mediterranean Area (REDESM) at the University of Insubria, in collaboration with the Pluriel network and the Anawati Chair at the ...

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

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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...

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...

to 15/07/25 to 23/07/25

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Cairo: Registration Open for 2025 Summer School “Citizenship and Religious Pluralism”

As part of the Anawati Chair “Combating Religious Extremism through Interfaith Dialogue”, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies in Cairo, in partnership with the University of Insubria (V...

DEADLINE : 01/11/21

CALL FOR PAPER

[Postponed] IFCU Symposium / Preparing for the COVID-19 World

Postponed to an unspecified date Symposium organized by the International federation of catholic Universities.–> Postponed to an unspecified date. The covid 19 pandemic has been a major crisis of w...

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Wael Saleh: “Recognising Without Confining, to Better ‘De-other’ the Public Debate”

• Wael Saleh

In an op-ed published on 20 July 2026 by Le Devoir, Wael Saleh, a member of the scientific committee of Pluriel, puts forward a new concept for contemporary democratic debate: “de-othering” (in ...

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Muslim worship in France: is the State-led reorganization underway?

• Mohamed-Ali Mostfa

In this article published on February 26, 2025, on The Conversation, Ali Mostfa analyzes the evolution of the Forum of Islam in France (Forif), created in 2022 to replace the French Council of Muslim Worshi...

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Islam in Europe or European Islam?

In this conference given on January 30, 2025, at PISAI (Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies) in Rome, political scientist Olivier Roy offers an in-depth analysis of the Muslim presence in Eu...

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Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space

• Leïla Tauil

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The Abu Dhabi Document: A Potential Cornerstone for Islamic-Christian Dialogue in Italian Educational Contexts

• Antonio Cuciniello

In Italy, the migratory phenomenon has also had an impact on the school system, becoming an interesting potential field for intercultural and inter-religious encounters. As regards, for instance, the presen...

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Christian Thought, Muslim Thought and Societal Issues: Launch of the “Theologies in Dialogue” Chair

• Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
• Michel Younès

On Wednesday, September 25, 2024, this inaugural conference presents a new chair entitled “Theologies in Dialogue” at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon. The speakers, Mi...

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Cosmopolitanism and minority rights: going beyond the protection of ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East

• Hélène Rey

This communication challenges traditional approaches to ethnoreligious diversity in the Middle East, arguing that the focus on “protecting minority rights” is inadequate. It demonstrates how the...

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Azharis, Representations of Christianity, and the Vagaries of Islamic-Christian Dialogue (1930s-2020s)

• Dominique Avon

Dominique Avon, Director of Studies at the École pratique des hautes études, traces the evolution of the discourse of the ulama of al-Azhar on Christianity since the 1930s. Confronted with the colonial Euro...

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Breaking Ramadan in the city centre. The public presentation of a young Muslim association

• Guillaume Chatagny

By Federico Biasca and Guillaume Chatagny “This article presents, describes, and analyses an event for breaking the fast organized in the public sphere by a local association of young Muslims in the F...

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Exclusively for Adherents of ‘Divinely Revealed’ Religions?

• Mohamed Gamal Ali

How did the preparatory work for the Egyptian constitutions discuss issues of freedom of religion and belief? « The term “divinely revealed religions” is used in the constitution, laws, and some judicial ru...

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Religious Pluralism in Post-“Arab Spring” Morocco

• Youssef Boutahar

Title of the lecture : “Re-problematizing the Religious Majority-Minority Dialectics in Post-Arab Spring Morocco: Between Subalternity and Digital Disobedience” Given the debate currently prevai...

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Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in contemporary Muslim thought

• Farid Bouchiba

The purpose of the proposed paper is to question the division of the world into dār al-islām (land of Islam) and dār al-ḥarb (land of war), which is a classification introduced by Muslim jurisconsults in th...

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Master’s degree in culture and society, ‘Theologies in Dialogue’

It is already possible to study Islamic theology at the University of Paderborn as part of the two-subject bachelor’s degree “Comparative Theology of Religions”. The Master’s courses offered by the Un...

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University degree “Religion, freedom of religion, secularization (laïcité)”

University degree jointly delivered by the University of Lyon 3 and the Catholic University of Lyon, in partnership with the French Institute of Muslim Civilization and the Conseil Régional du Culte Musulma...

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The management of the religious fact in companies and organizations

This training is aimed at managers, in order to enable them to master the legal framework of religion and to adopt a managerial posture adapted to the situations encountered. 2 consecutive days on June 24 a...

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University Diploma Interculturality, Secularism, Religions

The training “Interculturality, secularity, religions”, created in 2008 within the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Institut Catholique de Paris, in partnership with the Central Of...