Our world is made up of very diverse cultural and religious traditions. How do they come together and engage in dialogue when they each have their own particular intellectual conventions and understanding of the world?<\/p>\n
This is the fundamental and inescapable question being considered by the Conference: Diverse Cultural and Religious Ways of Thinking and Reasoning \u2013 a Conversation.<\/p>\n
A research project on this subject was initiated five years ago by the Institute of Science and Theology of Religions, as part of the Research Unit: \u201cReligions, Culture and Society\u201d of the Catholic Institute of Paris. It has led to three successive colloquiums (two organized in Paris and one in Taipei), research days, as well as several publications.<\/p>\n
Following these five years of research, this conference presents a unique opportunity to bring together in Paris researchers from universities in the four points of the compass: South Africa and Latin America, the North Atlantic region, Asia and the West.<\/p>\n
It builds on the collaboration initiated by the University Fu Jen of Taipei, the International Review of Theology Concilium1 and the Order of Preachers, and will engage university partners from different continents and religions (researchers and universities), in particular those of the Southern Hemisphere. The structure of the program allows for both plenary and workshop sessions. Each workshop will take the form of a panel of three speakers who will make short presentations and then open discussion with the audience. In this way the conference will enable both experienced and beginning researchers to make contributions that will promote interaction among a variety of religious and cultural disciplines. The conference will bring together about 300 people.<\/p>\n
Outcomes of the conference will be featured in an issue of Concilium (2017\/1, with 10,000 printings in 6 languages). Papers of panelists will be published in an e-book. Hard copies will be available on request everywhere in the world. The conference will be covered by French and international public and academic media, both civil and religious.<\/p>\n