As an international research hub, bridging the gap between cutting-edge trust research and real-world applications, T&S fosters transdisciplinary and intercultural exchange between researchers, practitioners, and public actors; all from diverse and complementary disciplines and cultural settings. The crises of trust faced by society are complex and multifaceted; and our trust research should be too. We are especially interested in generating dialogue and collaboration between disciplines and groups that do not normally talk to each other. The primary vehicle for these exchanges are the T&S Labs, in which members engage in an experience of structured collaboration focused on critical subjects related to trust. Together they leverage their experiences, skills, and expertise to generate new knowledge on trust, as well as make and implement evidence-based strategies for addressing real-world challenges linked to trust. T&S is also a network of researchers and institutions that integrates all disciplinary perspectives and subject areas within trust research across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. T&S is a project of the Luxembourg School of Religion & Society. The mission of the LSRS is to bring together researchers from different disciplines, nationalities, religious (and non-religious) affiliations to work together on projects of social importance. Its vision is a cohesive pluralist society within which diverse religious communities and leaders contribute; its promise to be a place where one can learn with and from the other. For additional details and contact information, please visit our website. www.trustandsociety.net
En partant de l’hypothèse méthodologique sur la sécularisation triomphante, le projet de recherche Ars Bene Credendi repense la vocation de la réflexion théologique. Car la « sécularisation » n’implique nullement la disparition du croire. Tout au contraire, le processus de sécularisation va de pair avec une dissémination aveugle de différents types de rapport croyant que l’homme entretient au monde, à l’histoire et à l’entourage socio-culturel. Or, ceci exige de la transformation de la théologie aussi bien en critique du croire qu’en herméneutique, source de sens pour un croire qui fasse du bien.
Porté par l’Université de Tübingen, l’Université de Potsdam et la LSRS, ce projet international édite, commente et étudie l’œuvre complète d’Élie Wiesel dans ses quatre parties (autobiographique, littéraire, biblique – talmudique – hassidique et essayistique), dans une perspective interdisciplinaire et interreligieuse en langue allemande. La partie littéraire est prise en charge à la LSRS par le Prof. Jean Ehret et le Dr Julien Jeusette.
Research project on the Transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the Jordan Valley and Transjordan: Can “Sea Peoples” be detected in the material evidence at various excavation sites (especially Tell Ziraʻa and comparable sites in the Jordan Valley). And if so, how?
Maxim Kantor is the “artist in residence” at the LSRS (2019-2023). Born in Russia, Kantor is a dissident artist who considers himself a Christian humanist. Concerning art, he writes: “[…] in days of trouble, when it is necessary to concentrate faith and gather the will – on such days art wakes up. Art was created to protect; to become a support for a tired will; to help [us] not to be afraid of trouble. Art asserts the law of harmony – and harmony is, first of all, justice. Art gives genuine names to things, and discards false names that have been assigned to things by mistake. Art exists to clarify the world, which evil seeks to obscure. Strictly speaking, art is a concentrated resistance to non-existence.” At the LSRS, Kantor created 14 paintings for the chapel of the Centre Jean XXIII, titled “The Chapel of the Resurrection.”
Ce séminaire de recherche s’intéresse à la relation entre la (les) mode(s) vestimentaire(s) et la religion, entendue comme système de croyances et de traditions religieuses. Il se donne pour objectif d’explorer un nouveau champ de recherche dans la littérature scientifique englobant la mode, les vêtements et la philosophie du style.