Click here to download the PDF version of the synthesis Teaching of religion, secularism and interreligious dialogue: crossed views in France and West Africa. Chat on June 21, 2019 organized by the Africa World Institute Speakers : Dr René NOUAILHAT, Professor of Universities, historian of religions, founder of the Institute for the Study and Teaching...
Dear members and friends of the Africa World Institute (AMI), The entire IAM team is pleased to invite you to its next conference, organized on Friday, June 21, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Arrupe Room, At 42 Rue de Grenelle, Paris 75007. (Metro: Lines 10/12 Sèvres Babylone, Line 12 Rue du Bac)...
Professor RICHARD FILAKOTA, Rector of the Catholic University of Central Africa The global context is marked by the rise of religion. This phenomenon can be observed in Africa, the United States, Asia, even in Europe, the land of secularism. With regard specifically to the African continent, particularly Central Africa, the collapse of African states in...
In this post, Denis Maugenest invites us to an ethics of dialogue without which no pluralism is possible. Religious traditions are a path of elevation towards a first being whom some call “God”, where weeds and good grain mingle. We have no right to see and propagate only what is thought to be “the chaff”....
In the previous posts, we have just gone through several topos and identified the situations from which the different religious traditions emerge, necessarily making comparisons. The thinking of Ancestorship obeys a plural logic and thus provides a solution to two difficulties intrinsic to religious pluralism: the relations between man and the powers of the invisible...
The year 2015 has opened, as we know, with events that question even in Europe the “religious forces” that are at work in all societies, whatever their degree of so-called “secularization”, i.e. the distance between action and political government on the one hand, and the various expressions of religious faith on the other hand. On...
After the first two tickets and after the conference organized by the IAM last Tuesday in the Centre-Sèvres entitled “Africa: Secularism and Freedom of Expression after January 11, 2015” during which we were able to meet against the backdrop of a common philosophy concerning the expression of our respective convictions – or our preventions –...
Today, I dedicate this Letter No. 2 to the approach of religious pluralism by the members of this spiritual continent which, over the past fifty years or so, and more precisely the Second Vatican Council, has profoundly renewed its approach to inter-religious relations, both by its members themselves, who are living witnesses to it –...
This first Letter that we are publishing is intended to constitute a workshop for reflection on religious pluralism today in Africa. Certainly the recent demonstrations on the continent, following the jihadist attacks in Paris a month ago, underline the urgency of the situation. But it has already been several decades since the signs of tension...