Researcher at the Institute Catholic de la Meditéranée

Ana Petrache (Romania) studied Philosophy and Political Sciences. She holds a PhD from École Pratique des Hautes Etudes (religious sciences) focusing on the encounters between Catholics and Marxists after the Second World War. Her work focuses on the relationship between religion and politics in 20th-century Western Europe. Her present research interests include political theology, eschatology, interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, political philosophy, and philosophy of history. During her postdoctoral studies, she was engaged in several research projects in the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Institut Catholique de la Méditeranée, Marseille. In Marseille, she is in charge of an intercultural and interreligious dialogue project promoting peace-building and theological dialogue between different faiths in the Mediterranean context. She was a fellow of the John Paul II Center for Interreligious Studies in Rome and she continues to work with them promoting Christians-Jewish Dialogue. Now she is a postdoctoral student at the Ecumenical Institute at the Angelicum in Rome. Her book Gaston Fessard, un chrétien de rite dialectique? was published by Cerf in 2017.