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From September 1-5, the biennial meeting of the European Jesuit Philosophers (JESPHIL) was held at Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Twenty five Jesuits from eleven different countries gathered together to share their experiences and to work in depth on one particular topic. This year’s topic was ‘Secularization, Secularity, Secularism’, with four major contributions exploring the conditions of belief/ unbelief in the modern West (scientific naturalism, atheistic humanism, post-Marxist materialism, the problem of evil) plus the input of a theologian (‘Is there, or can there be, a distinctive Jesuit reading of secularity?’). The workshops dealt with related issues: (1) Charles Taylor´s magnum opus A Secular Age; (2) sociological theories of secularization; (3) secular criticism; and (4) urbanization and urbanity. The meeting included also a visit of the burial place (shrine) of St. Hildegard, since 2014 doctor of the church, at St. Hildegard Abbey in Rüdesheim-Eibingen (Valley of the river Rhine). The next meeting shall take place from August 30 – September 3, 2016, in Zagreb on the topic of ‘democracy and the crisis of legitimacy’.

 

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