The 12^th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

February 5–12, 2024

International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo

 

International Forum Bosnia will be holding a programme of events to mark the 12^th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week this year in response to the appeal by the UN General Assembly session held on October 20, 2010, to member-states. While International Forum Bosnia will, as usual, be organising and coordinating the activities, a number of other national and international organisations and societies will also be participating and contributing.

The key themes of this year's programme are summed up in the title:

Global Ethics: Urgent Questions and Challenges.

The programme will take place on Wednesday the 5^th of February and Thursday the 12^th of February. There will be three academic panels. The panels will take the form of hybrid meetings, with some participants present in person and others through Zoom. Participants will be from public and academic life in Bosnia, other universities around the world, and the Bosnian diaspora.

Ø  Third Panel on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Hans Küng's Project of a Global Ethic

The question of a global ethic or Weltethos is particularly associated Hans Küng, one of the leading Catholic theologians of the second half of the 20th century, whose relationship with the Catholic hierarchy and magisterium was, to say the least, complex. His comprehensive project to restructure Christianity's self-understanding involved major attempts to reconceptualise the sister religions of Judaism and Islam as well, efforts ultimately integrated into his project for a Global Ethic or the establishment of a common substrate and content to the world religions and the distillation of a shared set of values to underpin global justice and politics, global business practice, and global culture. For some, this is the only pathway to building a shared world space within which difference can flourish and justice be provided a forum. To others, it can seem like the appropriation of projected commonalities in the service of reification, the imposition of imagined traditions, and the reduction of fundamentally other histories and cultures within a post-Christian frame – not unlike Habermas' post-secularism.

 

All three panels will include a number of invited speakers who will talk for approximately 15 minutes each. The sessions will be open to the public/members of International Forum Bosnia.

February 10, 2024

11 a.m. – 15 p.m.

 

Third Panel on Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Hans Küng's Project of a Global Ethic

Moderator: Fatima Mahmutćehajić

 

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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85282336435?pwd=T3PrShsImtG1bNH3DLIxhSoUUYruHE.1

 

Meeting ID: 852 8233 6435

Passcode: 039718

 

Theresa Beilschmidt, Global Ethic: From Hans Küng’s Abrahamic Research to Practical Interfaith Collaboration at a Local Level

Paul Ballanfat, The Ambivalence of Might

Desmond Maurer, Post-Secular Sacrifice and the Global Particular: Abraham, Kant, Benedict   

Asim Zubčević, Deconstructing a reified concept of Islam in Hans Küng's Islam by Rusmir Mahmutćehajić's Dialogical Glosses: on Hans Küng's Islam

Asim Delibašić, Universal and Particular in the Religions: A Traditionalist Reflection on Hans Küng