Thomas Michel At Berkley Center

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Thomas Michel

Berkley Center for Religion, peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University

Father Thomas Michel, SJ, is a Jesuit scholar working and living in Ankara, Turkey, and former Secretary of the Jesuit Secretariat for Interreligious Dialogue in Rome and Ecumenical Secretary for the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (1994-2008). From 1981-94 Michel worked at the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; he spent 2008-09 as a visiting fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown. Fr. Michel is a board member of (among others) Georgetown’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, the Khalidi Library in Jerusalem, and the Journal of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations. Ordained in 1967, he joined the Jesuits in 1971 in Indonesia and subsequently earned a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic studies from the University of Chicago. In March 2006 he spoke at the Berkley Center’s Conference on the New Religious Pluralism in World Politics on “Transnational Religious Identities in a Globalized World.”

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Muslim, Christian, Jesuit, ecumenical, transnational, Indonesia, Turkey

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