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Conference “The Theology of Religions Reinventing and Transforming Itself” (Paris, 8–9 June 2026)
Faced with growing religious diversity and the transformations of the contemporary world, how should we rethink the theology of religions today? On 8 and 9 June 2026, the Faculty of Theology of the Institut...
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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...
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100 Years of the PISAI: Call for Papers for the International Congress in Rome, 11–12 December 2026
PISAI, Rome. The year 2026 marks the centenary of the foundation of the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies (PISAI), a training, study, and research institute dedicated to religious dialogue...
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Call for Papers — “Of Priests and Sufis: Revisiting Catholic Scholarship on Islamic Mysticism” (IDEO, Cairo, 6–7 June 2026)
International conference at the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (IDEO), Cairo, 6–7 June 2026, within the MSCA Horizon Europe project SEMENSUF – Seminal Sufism in Motion. Coordinated by the Catholic...
14/02/25
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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...
25/09/24
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Conference “Christian Thought, Muslim Thought, and Societal Issues” with Michel Younès and Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Launch event for the “Theologies in Dialogue” chair on the theme “Christian thought, Muslim thought and societal issues” on Wednesday, September 25 at 6:30 PM at the Carnot campus of...
to 02/12/22 to 04/12/22
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Defining Islamic Comparative Theology / Conference
This conference aims to be a first step to programmatically and conceptionally explore the possibility of a genuinely Islamic Comparative Theology. Organized by the Centre for Comparative Theology and Cultu...
to 16/06/22 to 01/01/70
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‘Religion and Health’ – International meeting on comparative theology
At the Faculty of Theology of the University of Paderborn, from May 16th to 18th, 2022. A cooperation between the Center of Comparative Theology (ZeKK/Paderborn) and the newly founded Center of Comparative ...
DEADLINE : 15/03/22
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Call for papers / Religion and Health
International Meeting on Comparative Theology Theological Faculty Paderborn June 16-18th, 2022. In partnership with Bonn University Health, healing and religious believes are linked in various ways. Sufferi...
to 24/09/21 to 19/10/21
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PriMED Webinars : Religion, Law and Economy in the Mediterranean Space
The PriMED Project, in partnership with the Research Centre “Religion, Law and Economics in the Mediterranean Space” (REDESM, University of Insubria) are organising a new online conference progr...
to 16/08/21 to 20/08/21
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Summer school : Divine Simplicity and Divine Action. Discussing the Divine Attributes in Muslim-Christian Dialogue.
It has been a major question in traditional theological thinking how the Divine Attributes are to be understood. Recent debates in analytical philosophy have allowed new approaches that, however, are often ...
DEADLINE : 12/03/21
CALL FOR PAPER
Call for Papers “Friendship”
Conference on Comparative Theology 2021, June 10th-11th
to 09/08/21 to 13/08/21
AGENDA
Summer School 2020: Justice and Mercy. Discussing the Divine Attributes in Muslim-Christian Dialogue.
Organised by the University of Paderborn, Germany; and part of the project “Building bridges between traditional thought and analytical philosophy – Rethinking Divine Attributes in Islam and Christianity” w...
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“The word of God and the language of men” rewarded
P. Tobias SPECKER S.J., holder of the chair of Catholic theology in the light of Islam at the Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology “Sankt Georgen” in Frankfurt, is the first winner of the &...
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Conversaciones transformadoras. Una metodología para el diálogo islamo-cristiano en el campo del pensamiento social religioso
Inaugural Speech of the Academic year at the Faculty of Theology of Granada, Spain
Religion and temporality (Bonn, Germany)
Religion and temporality intersect in profound ways, shaping individuals, societies, and the course of history. From the cyclical rhythms of ritual and sacred time to the eschatological visions of the futur...
Comparative study on religious freedom across the two Mediterranean shores (Como and Varese)
The Research Centre “Religion, Law and Economy in the Mediterranean Area” (“Religioni, Diritti ed Economie nello Spazio Mediterraneo” – REDESM), established within the University of Insubria, aims to foster...
Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue (Bonn) (closed)
Research group of the University of Paderborn. The Qur’anic approach to prophecy challenges Jewish and Christian perspectives for a variety of reasons. The Qur’an seems to have some concrete features of pr...
Qur’anic Approaches to Jesus Christ in the Perspective of Comparative Theology (Closed)
The project will therefore scrutinize whether it is feasible, from a particularly Christian perspective, to recognize the Quranic appreciations of Jesus of Nazareth as a form of Christology, which could pos...
Abdul Rahman Al-Khunayfer
Roberta Aluffi
Professor of comparative law
Antonio Angelucci
Professor of Religious Law
Paolo Branca
Professeur associé d’études arabes et islamiques
Patrice Brodeur
Expert in Islamic studies and comparative Abrahamic religions
Anna Canton
D. student in Islamic, Arabic and Iranian Studies at Sapienza University and PISAI in Rome
Bénédicte Du Chaffaut
Chercheur au Centre d’Études des Cultures et des Religions de l’Université catholique de Lyon
Cornelia Dockter
Research Assistant in Christology and Comparative Theology
Elizaveta Dorogova
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Adam Dubin
Assistant Professor of Law, specialized in access to justice
Mohammad Haghani Fazl
Postdoctoral fellow at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Alessandro Ferrari
Professeur de droit comparé des religions
Silvio Ferrari
Honorary Professor of Canon Law
Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
Professor of Quranic exegesis
Cordula Heupts
Research assistant in the DFG-Project „Theology of Prophecy in Dialogue. Christian Prophetology in Dialogue with Judaism and Islam” at Bonn University
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Professor of Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies
Janos Jany
Head of the Institute of International Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
Jinan Limam
Associate Professor in Public Law at the Faculty of Legal, Political and Social Sciences in Tunis
Romain Louge
Doctorant en théologie à l’Université Catholique de Lyon
Ysé Tardan Masquelier
Historienne des religions, spécialiste de l’hindouisme et du yoga
Gianluca Parolin
Professor of Public Law at the Aga Khan University in London
Jean-Jacques Pérennès
Emmanuel Pisani
Directeur de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales (IDEO, Le Caire)
Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Professeure de théologie fondamentale et d’études religieuses à la faculté de théologie catholique d’Innsbruck
Houaria Rahaoui
Doctor of Philosophy, specialising in Islamology
Hamadi Redissi
Tunisian academic, Islamologist and political scientist. Professor of political science at the University of Tunis.
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Professor
Mariana Rosca
Candidate in the PhD program ‘Human Rights: Ethical, Social and Political Challenges’, University of Deusto, Bilbao
Nadia Saad
Research assistant at the Islamic Theological Seminary of the University of Paderborn.
Wael Saleh
Professeur associé à l’Institut d’études internationales de Montréal (IEIM), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).
Piotr Sękowski
Chercheur en études arabes et islamiques à l’Institut pontifical d’études arabes et d’islamologie (PISAI) de Rome
Tobias Specker
Professeur adjoint pour la “Théologie catholique à la lumière de l’Islam” à Francfort
Klaus von Stosch
Professor of catholic theology
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A comparative approach to the concepts of the common good and “maslaha”
Conference of Gonzalo VILLAGRAN, at the Second International Congress of PLURIEL in ROME Abstract Recently, Afifi Al-Akiti and Joshua Horden proposed the development of a new field of study called “A Compar...
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Fadl Allāh. The concept of “grace” in the Quran, similarity and contrast with the Bible
Abstract The question from which this article starts is the word “grace”. Are there in the Qur’an and Islamic tradition one or more concepts to be compared with the theological concept of grace in the Chris...
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The “jinsiyya” obsession and the Muwatana veil: the constitutional politics of citizenship in the 21st century
Conference of Gianluca PAROLIN the Second PLURIEL International Congress in Rome. Nation-states have added a further level of complexity to the multiple dimensions of belonging: that of (national) citizensh...
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Violence in the Holy Scriptures of Islam and Christianity
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Mercy, a new opportunity for dialogue between Muslims and Christians
Original title : La Misericordia, nueva oportunidad para el diálogo entre musulmanes y cristianos Abstract The common concept of mercy needs a clarification in its meaning for Christians and Muslims. This a...
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Religious affiliation, belonging and apostasy : a case study of Christian and Moslem conceptions
Lecture of Dirk ANSORGE, at the PLURIEL second international Congress in Rome Abstract It is well known that in Christianity – particularly in the European mainline churches – religious affiliation primaril...
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On Interreligious Dialogue
Abstract : To be able to speak seriously about interreligious dialogue, we must first clarify what is meant by religion. It is necessary to distinguish “religious tradition”, “religious institution” and “re...
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Scriptural hermeneutics in the 8th-9th centuries, the stakes for an Islamo-Christian dialogue
First lines of the introduction “Hermeneutics is one of the privileged places where the question of relation to the text arises. In Christianity as in Islam, the complexity lies in the way to approach...
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Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
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For a systemic theology of Christian-Islamic dialogue
First International Congress of the University Platform for Research on Islam in Europe and Lebanon (PLURIEL): theological area Speaker: Michel Younès, coordinator of PLURIEL, professor of theology, directo...
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From the Declaration “Nostra Aetate” to the Document of Abu Dhabi: Reexamining a Historical and Theological Trajectory in the Catholic Approach to Islamic-Christian Dialogue
Jean Jacques Pérennès, former director of the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, proposes a re-examination of the Catholic approach to Islamic-Christian dialogue, from the Nostra Aetate...
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Christians and Muslims: Similarities and Diversity