Georges Anawati Foundation
| Georges Anawati Foundation | |
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| Legal form: | non-profit foundation under private law |
| Purpose: | Promotion of international attitudes, tolerance in all areas of culture and international understanding |
| Chair: | Gregor Freiherr von Fürstenberg |
| Consist: | since November 28, 2000 |
| Founder: | Dietger Freiherr von Fürstenberg |
| Foundation capital: | - |
| Number of employees: | - |
| Seat: | Rüthen |
| Website: | www.anawati-stiftung.de |
The Georges Anawati Foundation is a non-profit foundation under private law based in Rüthen . The foundation is named after the Egyptian Dominican Georges Anawati . It was founded in 2000. The founder was Dietger Freiherr von Fürstenberg.
assignment
According to its statutes, the foundation has set itself the task of "counteracting the emergence of enemy images out of ignorance and fear of foreigners." Today, more than 7 million immigrant foreign residents live in Germany, around 4 million of whom see themselves as Muslims. The Georges Anawati Foundation wants to promote the Christian-Islamic dialogue in Germany . "With respectful cooperation and mutual respect, as the German constitution and legal system also suggest, you (Christians and Muslims) can make a contribution to peaceful coexistence and productive cooperation."
The purpose of the foundation includes the task of contributing to the "strengthening of friendly relationships between peoples and religions and thus to securing peace and relaxation" through the publication of academic and other written works .
Organs of the foundation
The executive board, the foundation council and the advisory board are the foundation's organs. All members of the foundation bodies carry out their work on a voluntary basis.
Board of Trustees
The board of trustees includes:
- Dietger Freiherr von Fürstenberg , founder - farmer and forester ;
- Gregor Freiherr von Fürstenberg , Chairman - Vice-President at missio Aachen;
- Joachim von Bonin , Program Manager, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH;
- Werner Höbsch , former head of the department for interreligious dialogue of the Archdiocese of Cologne
- Hakan Tosuner, managing director of Avicenna-Studienwerk
- Father Cosmas Hoffmann OSB from the Benedictine Abbey of Königsmünster (Meschede), Roman Catholic theologian
Honorary members of the Board of Trustees
- Former Abbot Stephan Schröer OSB, Deputy Chairman - Former Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Königsmünster (Meschede);
- Hans Vöcking M.Afr. ( Society of Missionaries of Africa ), research assistant at ARCRE (Action pour la Rencontre des Cultures et Religions en Europe), Brussels - founder of the Christian-Islamic meeting and documentation center (CIBEDO) and long-time member of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union COMECE ;
- Konrad von Bonin , former chairman of the board of the evangelical development service
Board
The board consists of:
- 1st chair: Angelica Hilsebein, consultant for the Christian-Islamic dialogue, Diocese of Münster
- 2nd chairman: Vinzenz Himmighofen, management consultant
Advisory Board
The advisory board's spokesman is Holger Nollmann, Protestant pastor in Bochum .
Projects
- Individual funding of innovative and exemplary initiatives
- Publication of a series of publications on topics of Christian-Islamic dialogue, edited by Thomas Eich, Mouhanad Khorchide and Stefan Reichmuth.
- Proposal for the annually awarded Pax Bank Prize for Intercultural Dialogue:
- Prize winner 2018: Essen interreligious network IRE
- Prize winner 2017: Christian Wulff , former Federal President (with laudator Mouhanad Khorchide , Münster)
- Prize winner 2016: Tobias Specker , holder of the newly founded endowed chair "Theology in the Face of Islam"
- Award winner 2015: Talat Kamran, head of the Mannheim Institute for Integration and Interreligious Dialogue
- Award winner 2014: Catholic Peace Foundation (with laudator Christoph Berndorff, initiator of the Pax-Bank Prize)
- Prize winner 2013: Dortmund "Football Tournament of Religions"
- Prize winner 2012: Karl Cardinal Lehmann (with laudator Norbert Lammert )
- Prize winner 2011: Nevfel Cumart (with laudator, publisher Bruno Kehrein)
- Prize winner 2010: Margret Bretzel from the Scalabrin Order
- Prize winner 2009: Sister Monika Weber
- Award winner 2008: Exhibition “Faces of Islam - Encounters with Muslim Women and Men” - a project by the Islam and Migration Office in the Church Services of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Hanover
- Award winner 2007: Duisburg hospice project as a religious educational cooperation between the Catholic Church, Evangelical Church and the Turkish-Islamic Union of the Institute for Religion ( DITIB )
- Essay competition for Christian and Muslim young researchers in cooperation with the Catholic Academy Rottenburg-Stuttgart
- Postgraduate scholarship in cooperation with KAAD
- Own events, partly in cooperation with other sponsors
literature
- Volker Meißner, Martin Affolderbach, Hamideh Mohagheghi , Andreas Renz (eds.): Handbook of Christian-Islamic Dialogue / Basics - Topics - Practice - Actors. Herder 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-33337-8 .
- Hans Vöcking (Ed.): Nostra Aetate and the Muslims - A Documentation. Herder 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30391-3 .
- Jean-Jacques Pérennès: Georges Anawati (1905-1994) - An Egyptian Christian and the mystery of Islam. Herder 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30379-1 .
- Dialogue in life. Pax Bank Prize 2009. Grupello Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-89978-142-7 .
- On the Way to Another Islam - Texts by Iranian Thinkers. Selected, translated and commented by Katajun Amirpur . Herder 2009, ISBN 978-3-451-30309-8 .
- Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid : God's word of man - For a humanistic understanding of the Koran. Selected, translated and with an introduction by Thomas Hildebrandt. Herder 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-29972-8 .
Web links
- Georges Anawati Foundation website . Retrieved September 13, 2009.
- Interview with Cornelius G. Fetsch: Basic work in the social hot spot . In: Pax-Bank-Note . Pax-Bank eG, p. 4. Retrieved on September 13, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Ebermann: Maecenata Foundation Guide 2005 . Maecenata Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-935975-44-9 , pp. 159 .
- ↑ a b c d Excerpt from the statutes of the Georges Anawati Foundation. In: website of the Anwati Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2009 .
- ↑ Committees. In: website of the Anwati Foundation. Retrieved April 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Funding. In: website of the Anwati Foundation. Retrieved September 13, 2009 .
- ^ Catalog of the German National Library. Retrieved May 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Focus on Muslim women. In: Aachener Nachrichten Online. Zeitungsverlag Aachen GmbH, accessed on September 13, 2009 : “The Pax Bank Foundation has been honoring work in the field of intercultural dialogue between Christianity and Islam for years. The first award winner in 2005 was the Georges Anawati Foundation, which has since provided advice to the Pax Bank Foundation in the selection of projects "
- ↑ Pax Bank Prize 2018 - homepage of the Anawati Foundation, accessed on April 17, 2019.
- ↑ “Pax Bank Prize 2017” to Christian Wulff, Former Federal President - homepage of the Anawati Foundation, accessed on April 14, 2018.
- ↑ “Pax Bank Prize 2012” to Cardinal Karl Lehmann with laudation by Norbert Lammert - homepage of the Anawati Foundation, accessed on April 14, 2018.
- ↑ PAX-Bank award winners - homepage of the Anawati Foundation. Retrieved June 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Models for the dialogue between Christians and Muslims: Prize of the George Anawati Foundation awarded to young scientists . In: Press archive of the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . March 2, 2008.
- ↑ Georges Anawati grant for research on the dialogue between Islam and Christianity. (No longer available online.) Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst e. V, archived from the original on June 9, 2009 ; Retrieved September 13, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
