Religions Between Exclusivism and Dialogues
International seminars, research and publications In recent decades, the world has witnessed many “religion” conflicts, such as the rise of radical Islamist movements in the Middle East, in Asia, in...
View ArticleExiting Violence: The Role of Religion. From Texts to Theories
Exiting violence: the role of religion is a biennial (2017- 2018) project, developed in partnership between Reset DOC and Kessler Foundation, that tries to address the following questions: 1) How do...
View ArticleGenealogies of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
International seminars, research and publications Islam is one of the major organized religions with a world-wide following and legal theories which have historically been broadly heterogeneous when...
View ArticleIstanbul Seminars 2016
Religion, Rights and the Public Sphere The title of the Istanbul Seminars 2016 is Religion, Rights and the Public Sphere. While religiously inspired social movements, political parties, and charity...
View ArticleExiting violence: the Role of Religion. From Texts to Theories
Reset Dialogues on Civilizations in partnership with Bruno Kessler Foundation and Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs – George Washington University are glad to invite you to: Exiting...
View ArticleEuropean Jihadists
The French based Iranian sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar draws a map of the different types of European Islamic extremists and their various anti-democratic approaches. Venezia 2016 Text Editing and...
View ArticleIslam has an Ethical Dimension Compatible with a Free Public Sphere
Can religion be a positive rather than a destructive force? asks Mohd Eiadat, of Jordan University: “Yes, in Islam, every generation should revisit it’s faith. There are 3 main traditions: 1 – the Sufi...
View ArticleCasanova: Religions and Cycles of Violence and Peace
This text is a transcription of a conversation between Giancarlo Bosetti and Josè Casanova. Please do not quote or reproduce without the permission of the author and of Reset DOC. The subject of...
View ArticleCounter-secularism and Religious Revival
It was not very long ago that religion was regarded as a relic, at least as far as politics are concerned. Now this picture itself seems an artifact of history. With the gods once again afoot in the...
View ArticleMulticultural and Multireligious: the Albanian Model for Coexistence
Preserved in the library of the Catholic seminary in Shkodër are a number of the very few books which have survived the blaze set alight by communists at the immediate aftermath of the war. They are...
View ArticleGermany: conversions to radical Salafism. How to stop them?
Germany is not immune to the phenomenon of religious radicalism. Over the past six years, about one thousand foreign fighters have left Merkel’s country for Syria and Iraq to join ISIS and other...
View ArticleReciprocal respect and dialogue. The only defence against terrorism
Although, in many ways, the reasons for which many recently converted young men decide or have so far decided to go and fight with “God’s fanatics” in Syria and Iraq remain mysterious, those same...
View ArticleReligious pluralism and the failure of political Islam
Are Indonesian democracy and pluralism being endangered by the revitalization of radicalism and the increasingly invasive presence of extremist Islamic groups? Is political Islam exploiting the...
View ArticleIndonesia: Nusantara Islam and social justice
The future of Indonesian Islam, and with it that of the entire nation, involves the issue of addressing social justice. The 82-year-old Muslim leader Ahmad Syafii Maarif, now a member of the...
View ArticleThe Rise of Communal Violence and the Reemergence of Radical Islamism During...
Indonesia has witnessed the mushrooming of communal violence during the early stages of its transition towards electoral democracy after the fall of Suharto’s authoritarian regime in 1998 (Tadjoeddin...
View ArticleRestoration of religious plurality in modern Albania
Ian Loring, an englishman, is the pastor of the evangelical church of Korca – a southern Albanian city – and has been for over a quarter century. He had never intended to settle here, admittedly. This...
View ArticlePopulism and The Shared Sense of Abandonment
More and more citizens feel abandoned or betrayed by their State, by the Welfare State, says political scientist Lisa Anderson. They shift identity, searching help from religious communities rather...
View ArticleWhy Muslims still feel second-class citizens in today’s India?
Dr. Rehman, what is cow vigilantism and how is it taking over India? Mujibur Rehman: Cow vigilantism has become a menace in India. Unfortunately however, that is not how the government sees it. Cow...
View ArticleFountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics,...
Venice Seminars Close Encounters Across all Divides June 7th-9th, 2018 | Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice The Venice Seminars, in partnership with the Center for Humanities and Social Change at...
View ArticlePurpose and History 2018
In the past few years, the Seminars held in Istanbul in collaboration with Bilgi University have discussed topics such as 1.Postsecularism (2008), 2.Religion, Human rights and Multicultural...
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