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Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
Author(s)
Michel Younès
Professor of Theology and Islam Studies, Deputy Director of the Research Unit "CONFLUENCE Sciences & Humanités", Director of the Centre for the Study of Cultures and Religions (CECR) - UCLy
Gonzalo Villagrán
Dean of the Faculty of Theology of Universidad Loyola in Granada. Professor of Christian social ethics
Marco Demichelis
Researcher in Islamic studies and history of the Middle East at the Gregorian center for interreligious studies, Ponfifical Gregorian University
Emmanuel Pisani
Director of the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO, Cairo).
Michaela Johanna Quast-Neulinger
University Assistant at the Institute of Systematic Theology - University of Innsbruck.
Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
Lecturer on the Arab-Muslim world and intercultural representations - Catholic University of Lyon.
Tobias Specker
Junior professor “Catholic Theology in the Light of Islam” - Hochschule für Philosophie und Theologie Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt.
Resource of the author(s) on PLURIEL Website
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God’s Word and Human Language Christian theology of revelation and Islamic positions on the inimitability of the Koran
God’s Word is at the centre of both the Christian and Islamic faiths. Revelation and language are thus closely related in both religions. Tobias Specker brings Islamic and Christian theology,...
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The Question of Otherness in Classical Islam | Respondents
Following the lecture: "The question of Otherness in Classical Islam" given by Raja SAKRANI, three members of the scientific committee of the PLURIEL network give answers according to the three axe...
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What power does religion have? Questions for Christianity and Islam
Das Thema „Religion und Macht“ ist umfangreicher als die Frage nach dem Verhältnis der Religion zum Staat und zu demokratischen Strukturen. Im Namen Gottes wird in menschliches Leben eingegriffen, ...
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Is God a lawgiver? Christian and Muslim perspectives on Ius divinum
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Presentation of the congress “Islam and Belonging” of PLURIEL
With the voices of members of the Scientific Comittee
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In brief: the PLURIEL congress in Lebanon
- Michel Younès
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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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The other in Islamic civilization: from the immanence of cultures to divine transcendence
- Raja Sakrani
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Lecture given at the 3rd International Congress of Pluriel on the theme "Islam and Otherness", on 24 May 2022, at Saint Joseph University in Beirut. Read abstract on the French tab.
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Does the pandemic affect radicalisation?
- Patrice Brodeur
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Collaboration between Canadian and French researchers in the framework of the Centre Jacques Cartier talks, promoting partnerships between the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and Quebec.
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Lavigerie and Islam, an ambiguous legacy
- Diego Sarrió Cucarella
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In a recent article on the contribution of the White Fathers to the renewal of Catholic attitudes towards Islam, Rémi Caucanas rightly notes that their founder’s legacy “was not without ambiguity”...
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Violence and Jihad in Islam: From the War of Words to the Clashes of Definitions
- Mohamed-Ali Mostfa
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This article explores the phenomena of violence and jihad in three parts: their emergence and trajectory in the Qur’anic text, their meanings, and their entanglement with the religious cause. The o...
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The challenges of religious visibility in the liberal public space
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Western modernity has engaged the religious question, over the past thirty years in processes that show an increased interaction between religiosity, visibility and urban public space. At a time wh...
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The sealing of prophethood in Islam
- Youssouf Sangare
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The notion of khatm al-nubuwwa, as the end of prophethood, has emerged as a fundamental theological doctrine in Islam. From the death of Muḥammad in 632, it was at the heart of multiple controversi...
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The Question of Otherness in Classical Islam
- Raja Sakrani
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Argument: How did Muslims represent the other? Here is a questioning overloaded with history, memory and narrative Islamic identity difficult to decode. Fourteen long centuries of conquests and def...
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Christian approaches to Islam: tensions, displacement, issues
- Michel Younès
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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?
- Haoues Seniguer
- Erwin Tanner
- Michel Younès
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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...