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A Swiss Centre for Islam and Society certificate to train chaplains in Muslim spiritual care in public institutions

From January to November 2027, the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (SCIS) at the University of Fribourg, a partner institution of Pluriel, will offer the third edition of its Certificate of Advanced Stud...

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Does the term “frérisme” clarify or obscure the public debate?

In an op-ed published on May 13, 2026, in the Quebec daily Le Devoir, Mounia Aït Kabboura, a sociologist of Islam, and sociologist Samir Amghar examine the growing use of the word “frérisme” (Brotherhood-is...

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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...

14/05/26

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Conflicts of Knowledge: Four Pluriel Researchers at the 93rd Acfas Congress (Trois-Rivières, 14 May 2026)

Trois-Rivières, Canada, 14 May 2026. Four Pluriel member researchers will take part in the symposium “Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narrativities”, held within the 93rd Cong...

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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...

to 14/05/26 to 15/05/26

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Conflicts of knowledge: the Arab world in academic narrativities

Update, April 2026: the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. The final symposium programme is now available: see the programme announcement and Pluriel researchers’ contributions. Call for pape...

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Amir Dziri: “Over the past decade, the Swiss Center for Islam and Society has strengthened its academic standing”

Fribourg, Switzerland. To mark the Swiss Center for Islam and Society’s tenth anniversary, its co-director Amir Dziri gave an interview to Pluriel.

07/05/25

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Webinar. An Anglican Perspective on Interfaith Marriages in England

As part of the Kircher Online Lectures, a public webinar will be held on Tuesday, May 7th at 4 PM (Central European Time). Entitled “Intimate Diversity: An Anglican perspective on interfaith marriage ...

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...

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“Mediterranean, Religions and Societies”: a pioneering chair to bring the two shores of the Mediterranean closer together

Rome – For the first time in its history, the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI) is pleased to welcome a university chair entitled “Mediterranean, Religions and Societie...

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

AGENDA

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...

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Conference “Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment” in Paris with Ahmed T. Kuru

Presentation and discussion with Ahmed T. Kuru on the occasion of the French translation of his book Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment (Fenêtres editions, 2024), on October 9, 2024, at 6 PM, at ...

13/09/22

AGENDA

Muslim spiritual guidance in the interfaith and secular context

Conference organised by the Swiss Center for Islam & Society Muslim chaplaincy in public institutions in Switzerland was born in response to a concrete need. On the one hand, it is situated at the thres...

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‘Islamophobia’ in Spain ?

The Bridge Initiative is a project led by Georgetown University that focuses on the problem of ‘Islamophobia’ in the world. Its ‘Islamophobia Resource Center’ (IRC) is a tool for academics and researchers, ...

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[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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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...

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The videos of the webinar ‘Islam and Otherness – Focus Lebanon’ are available

The opening webinar of the 3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network was held on 13 April 2021 on the theme “Islam and Otherness with a focus on the Lebanese experience. The replay has been or...

to 14/04/21 to 26/05/21

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Webinars on the prevention of religious radicalisation

The Research Centre “Religions, Rights and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (REDESM), based at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in cooperation with the PriMED project to prevent ...

13/04/21

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Webinar ‘Islam & Otherness – Focus Lebanon’ April 13th, 2021

To open the 3rd International Congress of PLURIEL, which will exceptionally extend over two years, we are offering a one-afternoon webinar on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm. The jurist Raja...

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Launch of a website about Islam in Switzerland

In conclusion of the project “Muslim organizations as social actors”(OMAS), the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (CSIS, University of Friborg) designed the website Islamandsociety.ch. It provides the gene...

to 06/11/20 to 07/11/20

AGENDA

Conference ‘Islam in school’

Conference oragnized by the by the Swiss Center for Islam and Society at the University of Fribourg.

09/10/19

AGENDA

Religious Traditions in the Face of the Crisis of Liberal System. The Case of Islam. (Milano, October 9th, 2019)

Conference organized by the department of religious science of Università Cattolica di Milano

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...

Theological perception of the other and cross-views in a plural religious context (Beirut)

Comparative study of university curricula on religious pluralism and dialogue in Lebanon

Epistemological and methodological issues in studies on violence in the name of Islam (Montreal)

This group aims to provide food for thought on the following questions: Are the available conceptual and epistemological methods and tools adequate enough to decipher the specific and complex discourses, pr...

Dynamics of Islamic radicalization in Europe: prevention and educational policies (Closed)

Since the “Arab Springs” breakout in 2011, Islamist radicalization in Europe progressively grew as ISIS spread violence and chaos in Iraq, Syria and Libya. The so-called “Islamic State” brought a new vision...

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...

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Two Seas, One Course: The 2026 Jesuit Migrant Service Report on Spain’s Southern Border

• Josep Buades

The annual report of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), the social apostolate body of the Society of Jesus in Spain, written by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, examines the migratory dynamics of Spain’s “so...

publication

Photographing Ordinary Islam

• Guillaume Chatagny

publication

Islam and Muslims. Doctrines, Schools of Thought, and Current Trends

• Michel Younès

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“The Reception of Rūmī’s Work in France: Cultural Mediations, Symbolic Transfers and the Recomposition of Belief”, by Khalid El Khadiri

• Khalid El Khadiri

In the journal La Clé des Langues (ENS de Lyon, March 2026), Khalid El Khadiri, a PhD candidate in the history and sociology of religions at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), examines the contemp...

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Managing Religious Diversity in Italy: Law, Policy, and Practice in a Pluralist Era

• Alessandro Ferrari

videos

Political and religious anarchism in the musical forms of rebel Islam: from rap to taqwacore

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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Aesthetics, ethics and identity: women’s bodies as an object of debate in contemporary Egypt

• Nada Amin

Paper presented at the 5th 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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The “new veils”: articulating ethics and aesthetics in Tunisian society

Paper presented at the 5th 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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Between Threat and Ideal: The Subjectivation of Imams

• Noemi Trucco

Abstract Public debate on Muslims in Switzerland is characterized to a significant degree by issues of problematisation and securitisation. In this debate, imams have become an increasingly frequent topic, ...

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The Immigrant-Origin Population in Spain (2025)

• Josep Buades

Report of the Jesuit Migrant Service (SJM), prepared by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, offering a statistical portrait of the immigrant-origin population in Spain. It provides a framework for understanding the ...

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The Immigrant-Origin Population in the Canary Islands (2025)

• Josep Buades

Report of the ECCA Social Foundation, prepared by Josep (Pep) Buades Fuster, on the immigrant-origin population in the Canary Islands, the main gateway of the Atlantic route. It documents a migratory realit...

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Professionalising Muslim Spiritual Care in Plural Societies: Swiss and Bosnian Experiences

• Hansjörg Schmid

formations

University degree ‘Religions and Medias’

The role of the media is not only to report the news, but rather to help form and direct public opinion, create issues, communicate and dialogue between individuals, groups and peoples. This training comes ...

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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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Master ‘Islam and Society”

The Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (CSIS) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Fribourg is offering a Master’s degree course “Islam and Society” as a main subject...

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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...

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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...