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“Abu Dhabi Declaration”, Theological UFO
In February 2019, Pope Francis visited Abu Dhabi, in the Arabian Peninsula. On this occasion, he signed a “Joint Declaration on Human Fraternity” with one of the highest Muslim dignitaries, Sheikh Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo. Fabien Hünenberger and Gabrielle Desarzens (RTS) asked Michel Younès, director of the Center for Studies of Cultures and Religions (CECr) at the Catholic University of Lyon, and Mohamed Bajrafil, linguist, theologian and imam at the Mosque of Ivry-sur -Seine, to comment the declaration.
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In brief: the PLURIEL congress in Lebanon
3rd international congress of the PLURIEL network, on the theme "Islam and Otherness", from 23 to 27 May 2022 in Beirut. In partnership with Saint Joseph University of Beirut and La Sagesse Univers...
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Al-Ash’arî, what place does still hold the authority of the theologians?
Conference « Religious Authority in Islam », organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions and the Research Unit of the Catholic University of Lyon (UCLy), on 18 and 19 November 2...
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Fundamental and applied Islamology
Lecture given on 14 October 2021 at the Catholic University of Lyon during the conference « Radicalisation leading to violence in the name of Islam, Epistemological, methodological and ethical appr...
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Christian approaches to Islam: tensions, displacement, issues
More and more Christians are questioning the reality of Islam and the place of a religion that appeared after the advent of Christ, confessed as the ultimate manifestation of God to the world. But ...
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Who is an authority in Islam in Switzerland and France?
Elements of answers to a question studied by the research group on the theme "Authority and regulation in Islam" of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR, UCLy) The question i...
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Christianity and Islam: theologians in dialogue
Cahiers de la Revue théologique de Louvain N°45 co-edited by Michel Younès and André Wénin. This book initiates a dialogue between Christian and Muslim theologians on how the former view Islam and ...
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Authority and Regulation in Islam – Research group in Lyon
Presentation of the research group on "Authority and Regulation in Islam" of the Centre for Cultural and Religious Studies (CECR, UCLy) with Michel Younès, Erwin Tanner and Haoues Seniguer. The gr...
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Islam and Belonging. Proceedings of the PLURIEL 2nd International Congress
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 proceedin...
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When Religion Invites Itself into Business: Tools for Management
How to approach the different facets of the religious when it arises in the field of the enterprise? What role can the common law or rule have? What help can good practices in this area bring, with...
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue
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Not without others: recognition of others and unity in Christ – on the relationship between mission and dialogue
- Tobias Specker
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Article published in the missiology journal ZMR 106 (2022/1-4), double issue: “Evangelisation and Fraternity in the Plural World
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Normativity of Holy Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- Klaus von Stosch
- Zishan Ahmad Ghaffar
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In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the orientation towards “holy texts” is central. While in the past it was undisputed that these texts could be understood as directly given by God an...
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Luther and Mohammed. Western European Protestantism and Islam (16th-18th centuries)
- Pierre-Olivier Léchot
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Publisher’s presentation Autumn 1611: while visiting France, a young Dutch Protestant student refines his knowledge of Arabic with a Muslim of Castilian origin he met in the Paris region. Tho...
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Original Sin and the Qur’an
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
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The present article addresses the common view that the Qur’an has no doctrine of original sin. It begins by defining original sin with attention to the Bible and Christian tradition. Thereafter the...
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Education And Otherness: What are the Issues in a Context of Diversity?
- Salim Daccache
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In the era of the continuous call for the adoption of citizenship and living together (al Azhar declaration March 2017) and human brotherhood and common coexistence (Abu Dhabi document February 201...
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Islam and Christianity: mutual views and challenges of otherness
- Michel Younès
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In his book Soi-même comme un autre (Seuil 1990), the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) builds his reflection on this 'as' which, according to him, allows us to escape from two harmful te...
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Thinking Islam in Europe
- Alberto Fabio Ambrosio
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Interview with Alberto F. Ambrosio, dominican friar, professor of Theology and Histpry of Religions at the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. Reporter : Raphaël Georgy With the collabor...
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Muslim-Christian Dialogue : the approach of the White Fathers
- Rémi Caucanas
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Involved in the Muslim world since its foundation by Bishop Charles Lavigerie in 1868, the Society of Missionaries of Africa, whose members are known as the White Fathers, has contributed to the em...
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Heterodox and non-Muslim in the thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ġazālī
- Emmanuel Pisani
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This study addresses the question of how to view and understand religious otherness from a Muslim perspective, in the light of one of its greatest thinkers. Starting from a questioning of the statu...
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Islam and the Salvation of non- Muslims: The Qur’anic Perspective
- Gabriel Said Reynolds
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"At the Pluriel conference on “Islam and Otherness” I will argue the Qur’an’s emphasis on divine freedom provides an opening for inclusivism. The Qur’an emphasizes God’s mercy, using al-Raḥmān as a...