A certain triumphalist fatalism has long dominated the historiography of the rise of Christianity and that of the expansion of Islam. Eusebius and Jerome give the tone: they celebrate a Christian cult destined to...
The school of Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, is holding a conference on the theme ‘ Mimetic Theory and Islam’ from May 19 to May 21. During this conference, John Tolan,...
John Tolan, co-director of the IPRA, will give a lecture entitled ‘Reformer and Visionary: the European Enlightenment Reinvents the Prophet Muhammad’, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (specifically at the Research Center for the...
The issue #130 of the history journal Vingtième siècle (April-June 2016), including a dossier on the theme ‘Sciences et religions au 20e siècle’ (science and religion in the 20th century) which was directed by...
On the 23rd of February 2016, John Tolan, co-director of the IPRA, will give a lecture on the topic ‘Oxford Jews & Christian Hebraism in the 13th Century’, at the University of Pennsylvania. This...
The lecture “Où est Charlie ? Les religions et la guerre”, sponsored by the IPRA, will take place in Angers on the 12th of January 2016, as a part of the ‘mardis de Confluences’...
