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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/741456-lnspes-contra-
 spem-r-the-loss-of-future-in-contemporary-religions
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Pavillon Marguerite-d'Youville\, 2375\,
  chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine\, Montréal\, QC\, canada\, H3T 1A8
SUMMARY:« Spes contra spem. » The Loss of Future in Contemporary Religio
 ns
DESCRIPTION:What does the paradoxical expression “spes contra spem” (ho
 ping against hope) really mean? And how may the paradoxical situation inhe
 rent in this expression apply in the contemporary context of old and new f
 orms of religion? My speech intends to explore these questions.
\nFirst of
  all\, I will outline a short history of the topic by referring\, above al
 l\, to Judaism and Christianity. Secondly I will discuss the paradoxical q
 uestion of hope in contemporary world of faith: in particular analyzing so
 me “new religions” (religions on the web\, by the web and in the web).
  Finally\, I will outline the possibility of “hoping against hope” in 
 today’s situation of very loss of hope.
\nAdriano Fabris is Full Profess
 or of Moral Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy). After his gradua
 tion Mr Fabris got a specialisation on Philosophy of Religion at the Unive
 rsity of Freiburg i. B. (Germany) under the direction of Bernhard Casper (
 about the relation between philosophy and theology in the work The Star of
  Redemption of the Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig). In 1987 he obtain
 ed a “Perfezionamento in Filosofia” (Theoretical Philosophy) at the Un
 iversity of Genoa under the supervision of Alberto Caracciolo (with a diss
 ertation on “Philosophy\, History and Temporality. Heidegger on Basic Pr
 oblems of Phenomenology”). Since 2010 he is director of the research Ins
 titute ReTe (Religions and Theology) of the University of Lugano\, Faculty
  of Theology. On this field he promoted researches on the conditions of in
 terreligious dialogue. His actual research focuses on Hermeneutical Thoug
 ht\, Ethics of Information and Comunication and Philosophy of Religion.
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