{"id":12568,"date":"2025-10-30T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/?page_id=12568"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:22:24","slug":"sameer-advani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/sameer-advani\/","title":{"rendered":"Sameer Advani"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block  cta-with-media full-width\" \n            >\n\n      <div class=\"cta-with-media__content  template-media-sx py-60 md:py-80\" id=\"\" style=\"\">\n\n    <div class=\"container\">\n      \n        <div class=\"flex flex-col gap-40 md:gap-50 lg:gap-100 md:flex-row\n        md:items-start\">\n\n          <div class=\"flex-1\">\n            <div class=\"media\" style=\"--bg-color-var: #FFFFFF\">\n              <div\n  class=\"image bg-cover  --is-jpg \"\n   data-defer >\n  <figure>\n    <div class=\"image__wrapper\">\n              <picture>\n          \n          <source\n            srcset=\"\"\n            sizes=\"(min-width: 992px) 808px, (min-width: 768px) 680px, 100vw\"\n          \/>\n          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/11\/sadvani-2-scaled.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"sadvani (2)\">\n        <\/picture>\n          <\/div>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n                          <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n          <div class=\"flex-1\">\n                                  <p class=\"!mb-40\"><p><b>Sameer Advani, L.C.<\/b> is an <b>Associate Professor of Dogmatic Theology<\/b>, co-director of the research line <b>&#8220;Dialogue and Evangelization in Postmodern Culture,&#8221;<\/b> and a researcher at the <b>UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights<\/b> at the <b>Pontifical Athenaeum <i>Regina Apostolorum<\/i> in Rome<\/b>. He earned his doctorate in Sacred Theology with a thesis on the theological foundations of religious plurality, for which he received a prestigious scholarship from the <b>Vatican Joseph Ratzinger \u2013 Benedict XVI Foundation<\/b> and a renowned award conferred by the <b>Catholic Media Association of the United States<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>His research interests include the <b>theology of J. Ratzinger<\/b>, <b>ecclesiology<\/b>, <b>interreligious and intercultural dialogue<\/b>, and <b>evangelization in the context of the postmodern world<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to numerous conferences and articles, he is the <b>author or editor of the following works<\/b>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><i>Ratzinger on Religious Pluralism<\/i><\/b> (Emmaus Academic, 2024);<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Multicultural and Religious Perspectives on Protecting the Environment, the Biosphere, and Biodiversity<\/i><\/b> (Routledge, 2025);<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Un Semplice e Umile Lavatore nella Vigna del Signore. A venti anni della elezione al soglio pontificio di Joseph Ratzinger-Benedetto XVI<\/i><\/b> (EDUSC 2025);<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Fratelli Tutti in Conversation: Voices from World Religions<\/i><\/b> (Routledge, 2026);<\/li>\n<li><b><i>Joseph Ratzinger e il Concilio Vaticano II<\/i><\/b> (Cantagalli, 2026).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n                                      <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n  <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12568","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12599,"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12568\/revisions\/12599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.upra.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}