International Center for Comparative Theology and Social Issues

From September 16th to September 17th, 2025, the International Meeting on Comparative Theology (IMoC) 2025 will take place at Paderborn University as part of the AIWG-format "ITS-Colloquium." This year’s conference is dedicated to "Comparative Theology and Social Work."

The notion of ‘the Land’, as a religious category, occupies a more or less significant place in all three monotheistic religions, namely, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Even within each of these religious traditions, this notion has been treated in a variety of ways, from merely spiritual and abstract (thus referring to the eschatological, spiritual or primordial realm) to concrete and historically relevant (understood liturgically or politically significant). The conference aimed at bringing those different perspectives on ‘the land’ together so that a comparative theological setting for deepening the subject would be possible. The main questions discussed were: how do Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious scholars understand the notion of ‘the Land”- each from the perspective of his or her own religious tradition? And how does this relate to the other religions?

Gingko Encounter Grant Supports CTSI Initiative

Henriette Herz-Scouting-Programm der AVH fördert internationale Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen