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Debora Tonelli

Research Fellow

Georgetown Representative in Rome

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October 6, 2022

Debora Tonelli's Book on Fratelli Tutti Featured in Webinar

Research Fellow Debora Tonelli will be presenting her edited collection, Fratelli tutti? Believers and non-believers in dialogue with Pope Francis (2022), during an October 11 webinar hosted by the Bruno Kessler Foundation's Center for Religious Studies. 

Profile

Debora Tonelli is a permanent researcher at the Center for Religious Studies (Centro per le Scienze Religiose) at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler. She is the Georgetown representative in Rome and a research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. Tonelli is also a lecturer in religion and violence at Gregorian University and lecturer in political philosophy and philosophy and religion at Pontifical Atheneum S. Anselmo. Her research and teaching focus on the interaction between politics and religion, particularly in the context of interreligious dialogue and religious violence. Since 2013, Tonelli has coordinated an interdisciplinary project on "Religions and Violence." She holds a Ph.D. in political philosophy and in theology.

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