Academic research on religion reaches only partly, if at all, the religious communities or secular associations concerned with religious issues. Discourses on religion often evolve behind closed doors. This situation fosters monopolies, maintains fears...
The university degree of the IPRA, ‘Religions et athéisme en contexte de laïcité’ / Religion and atheism in a secularism context (Université du Maine and Université de Nantes), will open in January 2016. Please...
Dominique Avon, co-director of the IPRA, translated a text written in arab by more than fifty Saudi ulama and preachers in reaction to the intervention of Russian troops in Syria, calling on Sunnis to...
On Thursday November 5, the movie “Profession : Documentariste” (Iran, 2013, 1h20, original version with French subtitles), from Sepideh Abtahi, Shirin Barghnavard, Mina Keshavarz, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Sahar Salahshoor, Farahnaz Sharifi, and Nahid Rezaei, will...
An interdisciplinary workshop, second part of the cycle ‘Michel Houellebecq ou misère de l’homme sans Dieu ?’ (Michel Houellebecq or the misery of mankind without God?), will take place on June 17, 2016. It is...
Volume 5 of the RELMIN collection at Brepols publishers (Religion and Law in Medieval Christian and Muslim Societies) is out! The eleven essays brought together in this volume explore the relations between expulsion, diaspora,...
