01/07/2026 09:00 - 12:20

HALL: Pola - A107

Contact: Stoeckl K.

Chair: Casanova J.

The "Theologies and Practices of Religious Pluralism" project, coordinated by RESET Dialogue, set itself the task to study how religious and cultural pluralism at the local, national and global levels is challenging all religious traditions in their exclusivist "truth claims". The aim of the project's clusters was to analyze and compare how different religions respond to and come to terms with "the truth of the other." Clusters inside the project dealt with Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity. In this panel, the convenors of each cluster will draw on findings from their group to reflect on the question of how religious traditions practically deal with tensions that arise between the principle of individual equality and norms of community. The individual-vs.-collective binary informs many controversies inside religious traditions, and also impacts the relations between religious traditions. In response to the Annual Conference's central theme "Religion and (in)equalities", the speakers will address forms of inequality produced by religious traditions, mechanisms of mitigating inequality, and the limits and incompatibilities of theologies of equality and inequality, touching issues such as race, gender, wealth and freedom of expression.