Can what is taking place in our world, following the wave of the migrations of peoples and techno-economic globalisation, be defined as a gigantic, chaotic and dramatic crossing of civilisations and cultures?

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LEADER

 

Between the East and the West, A Mexican Suggestion, Angelo Scola

 

CURRENT ISSUES

 

We and the Others in Modernity Without Boundaries, Paolo Gomarasca

A Giant Crucible Called the New World, Guzmán Carriquiry

The West: The Anxiety of the Mosaic-Identity, Giovanni Salmeri

The Crucifix in the Classroom and Taking the Oath on the Koran, Andrea Pin

A New Census for the Nation of Migrants, Giovanna Rossi

A Regime of Net Separation, Paul Hinder

The Christian Adieu to the Holy Land, Fouad Twal

An Uncertain Destiny for Polymorphous Island, Franz Magnis-Suseno

 

DOCUMENTS

 

Singularity and Plurality in the Mystery of the Church

“One in All and the Whole in One”, Pier Damiani

That People that Knows No Frontiers, Benedict XVI

The Communion of Saints, the Earthly Experience, Hans Urs von Balthasar

 

ENCOUNTERS

 

The Challenges of a Small Church in a Morocco that is Changing Speed, Roberto Fontolan

 

REPORTAGE

 

Turkey: The Narrow Way of the Minorities, Camille Eid

 

CONTRIBUTIONS

 

In Tibhirine, Following the Surprise of a Friendship, Philippe Xavier Ignace Barbarin

Ghana, If Islam Becomes an Enigma, Peter Turkson

Christians Swallowed Up by the Iraqi Night, Joseph Yacoub

For the Kazaks Religion has Become Fashionable Again, Edoardo Canetta

Looking for the Traces of Divine Mystery, Muhammad ‘Abed al-Jabri

The Creation: A Sign for Those Who Have a ‘Healty Intellect’, Hmide Ennaifer

The Dialogue that Sprouted from the Seed of Ratisbon, Maurice Borrmans

 

REVIEWS

 

Confronting the Historical Jesus, Lucio Cilia

Law: The Child and Not the Father of Reality, Luis Okulik

When Identities Short Circuit, Paolo Gomarasca

And If We Try to Talk About Connections?, Paolo Gomarasca

Ten Travelers in Human Diversity, Paolo Gomarasca

The Arab World Explained to America, Marco Bardazzi

The Uncertain Fascination of a Mixed Marriage, Andrea Pin

Christians in Iraq: Their History and their Tragedy, Camille Eid

The Crisis of Jacobin Secularity, Henri Hude

In the Global Era thus Changes Islam, Marco Bardazzi

Who Did It? Searching for the Guilty Amidst Plots, Censorship and True Questions, Emma Neri

 

COLOPHON

 

A BIANNUAL MAGAZINE OF THE OASIS INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTRE

ORDINARY MEMBER OF THE STUDIUM GENERALE MARCIANUM

YEAR III, NUMBER 6, OCTOBER 2007

 

Editor Roberto Fontolan

Coordinator Gabriel Richi Alberti

Managing Editor Martino Diez

Editorial Consultants Marco Bardazzi Camille Eid

Graphic Design Anna Wawrzyniak

Layout Anna Wawrzyniak Alessandro Bellucci [arabic and urdu]

Organisation Patrizia Cacciari Teresa Scantamburlo

French translation Danielle Ballay Lunghetti

English translation Matthew Fforde

Arabic translation Jamil Ghobril [into arabic], Martino Diez [from arabic]

Urdu translation Mobeen Shahid

 

Distribution David Cantagalli e Associati Editori

Registration Tribunal of Venice n.1498 of 12/10th/2004

 

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