OCCURSO

Institute for interreligious and intercultural encounter

Welcome to the homepage of OCCURSO. The institute was established as a registered NGO in January 2008.

The vision and aim of OCCURSO (lat. encounter, to meet) is to foster and encourage interreligious and intercultural dialogue and encounter. OCCURSO focuses on the study of dialogue and learning processes involved as well as education and encouragement for dialogue of different cultures and traditions.

To put this into practice, OCCURSO intends to work together with partners in the area of churches and other religious bodies as well as academic organizations.

The Abbey of St. Ottilien, a Benedictine Monastery west of Munich, is our host.

The institute is not a body of a church or religious organization, but works together with them as partners and members. Theological work done by the institute is therefore multiple, depending on the religious tradition of the author.

Religious studies and theology will work together in order to understand all aspects of interreligious and intercultural learning processes and other aspects of dialogue.

The first study project of OCCURSO is on “interreligious learning in Christian-Muslim dialogue”, which we hope to carry out 2008-2012. It involves qualitative research of Christian and Muslim communities in Germany (Munich area) and Turkey (Antakya area). Participating communities will undertake different dialogue initiatives. The result of this initiative on the relationship between Muslims and Christians as well as their individual processes of learning will be analyzed. Here religious studies and theology (Christian and Muslim) will work together.

 

 

 

To secure the financial basis of our work, we are currently looking for sponsors in order to build up a trust.

If you are interested to become a member or a partner of OCCURSO or if you want to support our work, please contact us.

OCCURSO

Institute for interreligious and intercultural encounter

 

c/o Dr. Martin Rötting

Hohenbachernstr. 37

85354 Freising

Germany


 

Email: roetting.martin AT web.de

Internet: www.occurso.de

Telefon: + 49 8161 547806
 

Mobil:    + 49 162 9351984