Pier Cesare Bori

Pier Cesare Bori (2007)

Pier Cesare Bori (born February 3, 1937 in Casale Monferrato , Italy ; † November 4, 2012 in Bologna ) was an Italian religious scholar .

Life

Pier Cesare Bori studied law , biblical studies and Catholic theology . In the 1970s he worked at Giuseppe Alberigo's Institute for Religious Studies in Bologna.

In 1970 he was appointed professor for the history of Christianity and the Church with a special focus on moral philosophy and human rights in globalization at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna , where he had been a lecturer since 1970. Together with Gustavo Gozzi , he led the master’s program “Diritti umani e intervento umanitario” (human rights and humanitarian intervention ). From 2002 to 2007 he was the chairman of the Bachelor in Culture e diritti umani ( Cultures and Human Rights). In 2012 he was awarded the UNESCO Chair for Religious Pluralism and Peace. He has held visiting professorships in the USA, Japan and Tunisia.

He worked on the new “Master en religions et civilizations comparées” at the Faculty of Humanities in Manouba , Tunisia, where he was a guest many times to learn the Arabic language.

Together with a group of students, Una Via , he got involved with the prison inmates of the Dozza, Bologna, and paid special attention to the Maghreb inmates and those pursuing university studies.

Pier Cesare Bori leaves behind an extensive body of publications.

Fonts

In the field of Bible interpretation:

• Koinonìa , Paideia, 1972;
• Chiesa primitiva , Paideia, 1974 (The Early Church);
• Il vitello d'oro , Boringhieri, 1983, translated into English The golden calf, and the origins of the anti-Jewish controversy , Scholars Press, Atlanta, 1990;
• L'interpretazione infinita , Il Mulino, 1987, translated into French L'interprétation infinie , Paris, Cerf, 1991 (The Infinite Interpretation).

He studied Sigmund Freud intensively and his work The Man Mose and the Monotheistic Religion :

• L'estasi del profeta ed altri saggi tra ebraismo e cristianesimo dalle origini sino al Mosè di Freud , Il Mulino, Bologna, published 1989 (The Ecstasy of the Prophet and other articles on Judaism and Christianity from the origins to Moses by Freud).

His research on Lev Tolstoy , with several stays in Russia , is summarized in:

• L'altro Tolstoj , Il Mulino, Bologna, 1995 (The other Tolstoy),

and in translation from Russian:

• Pensieri per ogni giorno , Edizioni cultura della pace, 1995 (Thoughts for every day).

He also wrote the introduction for:

• Guerra e pace , Einaudi, 1998 (War and Peace).

On the subject of intercultural ethics , he wrote:

• Per un consenso etico tra culture , Marietti, 1995 (For an ethical consensus between cultures), also translated into English by P. Leech, Ch. Hindley, D. Ward: From Hermeneutics to Ethical Consensus among Cultures , Atlanta, Georgia, Scholars Press , 1994, and
• Per un percorso etico tra culture , Nuova Italia, 1996 (For an ethical path between cultures).

He studied religious humanism :

• Pluralità delle vie. All origini del Discorso sulla dignità umana di Pico della Mirandola. (Multiplicity of ways. At the origins of the speech on the human dignity of Pico della Mirandola) Latin text, Italian version, edited by Saverio Marchignoli, Feltrinelli, Milan 2000. Also online in Latin, Italian and English: s. Web links.

He has edited some important recently written articles in:

• Universalismo come pluralità delle vie , Marietti 1820, 2004 ( Universalism as a multiplicity of paths). Translated into Arabic by A. Addus: Akhlâq kauniyya lithaqâfât muta'addida, Dar Talya, Beyrut 2007.
• Incipit. Cinquant'anni, cinquanta libri (1953–2003) , Marietti 1820, 2005 (50 years, 50 books), wants to explain his intellectual profile.

Most recently he published the Italian version of Terror in the Service of God. The "Spiritual Guide" of the September 11, 2001 assassins , in which a refined Arabic translation of the document can be found:

• Terrore al Servizio di Dio. La “Guida spirituale” degli attentatori dell'11 Settembre 2001 , Verbarium-Quodlibet, Macerata 2007.

Web links

• Literature by and about Pier Cesare Bori in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Pier Cesare Bori (University of Bologna) (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ilaria Venturi: Una vita per i diritti umani. Si è spento Pier Cesare Bori. La Repubblica, November 5, 2012, accessed November 5, 2012 (Italian). 
2. ↑ Short biography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Fondazione per le scienze religious Giovanni XXIII , accessed on November 6, 2012.