{"id":14918,"date":"2023-05-09T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.cas.bg\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=14918"},"modified":"2023-05-09T16:33:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T13:33:50","slug":"discussion-series-religion-and-culture-dante-and-islam-on-the-center-and-the-periphery-in-the-hereafter-and-in-this-world","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/event\/discussion-series-religion-and-culture-dante-and-islam-on-the-center-and-the-periphery-in-the-hereafter-and-in-this-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion Series \u201cReligion and Culture\u201d: Dante and Islam &#8211; On the Center and the Periphery in the Hereafter and in This World"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>The Center for the Study of Religion (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia are pleased to announce the next seminar of the series<\/p>\n<h3>Religion and Culture<\/h3>\n<p>Topic for the 2022\/2023 academic year: \u201cCenter and Periphery in Religions and Society\u201d<br \/>\nModerator: Simeon Evstatiev<\/p>\n<p>You are cordially invited to a lecture by <strong>Prof. Vladimir Gradev<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Dante and Islam: On the Center and the Periphery in the Hereafter and in This World<\/h3>\n<p>The lecture will take place on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">22 May 2023 at 5:30 p.m.<\/span> at the Center for Advanced Study, 7 Stefan Karadzha St., entrance 3, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Edward Said discovered in the Divine Comedy \u2013 a central work of Western Christian civilization \u2013 the starting point of the \u201cOrientalist vision\u201d that turned Islam into an epitome of the enemy lurking on the periphery of Christendom, of the outsider against whom the modern European culture was founded and built. For others, led by As\u00edn Palacios, Dante was positively influenced by Islam, and his journey to the worlds beyond was modeled on the Muslim account of the mi\u2018r\u0101j, the Prophet Muhammad\u2019s night journey. For more than half a century, heated debates have continued as to whether the Comedy is an embodiment of the medieval \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d or, on the contrary, a testimony to a tolerance of religious and cultural differences and receptiveness to the Arab-Islamic heritage that was remarkable for its time. The lecture will examine \u2013 between the Scylla of \u201cIslamophobia\u201d and the Charybdis of Dante\u2019s \u201cIslamophilia\u201d \u2013 essential aspects of the delicate and still important problem of the relationship between Dante\u2019s world and Islam.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vladimir Gradev<\/strong> teaches Theory of Religion and Culture of the Renaissance and Baroque in the Cultural Studies Program of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, and is the editor-in-chief of the journal Philosophy. He is the author of \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0438\u0442\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0414\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0435 (Readings of Dante) in three volumes (Sofia: Komunitas, 2023).<\/p>\n<p><em>The seminar is part of the program \u201cReligion, Center, and Periphery: The Orient in Europe, Europe in the Orient\u201d of the Center for the Study of Religions, supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Study of Religion (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski) and the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia are pleased to announce the next seminar of the series Religion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14918"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}