After its first international congress in Lyon from 6 to 9 September 2016 on the theme « Islam in the Plural: Faith, Thought, Society »^[1], the current study brings together the proceedings of the Second PLURIEL Congress held in Rome from 26 to 28 June 2018. In partnership with the Gregorian University and the Pontifical Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (PISAI), the Congress brought together more than one hundred and twenty researchers from its network of more than fifteen countries. This intellectual adventure is also a human adventure where a network, mainly made up of Catholic institutions, supports the reflection of academics on the question of Islam along three axes: community, territorial and citizen.

This book addresses the crucial question of «Islam and belonging» from three angles: theological, the context of the Middle East and that of Europe. Offering the double advantage of being less rigid than the category of identity and more articulated to the phenomenon of recompositions specific to modernity, the notion of belonging opens on many fields of reflection, including sociological, political and theological. Contemporary transformations cannot be apprehended by making the economy of the modes of articulation, transition, rupture and antagonism that are established between tradition and modernity. The plurality of approaches, fields and cultural contexts illuminates differently what appears in the order of an identity tension in reference to a religion, Islam.

Co-directors

Michel Younès is a professor in the faculty of theology and director of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions at the Catholic University of Lyon.
Anna Hager is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria, specializing in Christians in the Middle East and Islamic-Christian relations.
Laurent Basanèse is Director of the Gregorian Centre for Interreligious Studies, Professor at the Faculty of Missiology of the Gregorian University, Rome.
Diego Sarrió Cucarella is rector of the Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica (PISAI), Rome.
Dirk Ansorge, Marco Demichelis, Alessandro Ferrari, Jaume Flaquer, José Luis Llaquet de Entrambasaguas, Ali Mostfa, Michaela Quast-Neulinger, Gianluca Parolin, Emmanuel Pisani, Hamadi Redissi, Wael Saleh, Gonzalo Villagrán, Anja Zalta also participated in this book.

[1] Ali Mostfa et Michel Younès (dir.), L’islam au pluriel, foi, pensée, société. Actes du 1^er congrès international de PLURIEL 6-9 septembre 2016, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2018.

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