Global Catholicism, Tolerance and the Open Society

Arno Tausch is an Honorary Associate Professor of Economics at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Innsbruck University, Austria. From 1992 to his retirement in 2016, he worked at the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs, in the area of European Union and International Affairs. He has authored or co-authored books and articles for major international publishers and for leading global strategy think tanks in Austria, Israel, Poland, and Russia, including 11 articles indexed in the Central and Eastern European Online Library database. He is a co-author of the book 'Islamism, Arab Spring and the Future of Democracy,' published with Springer in 2019.

Stanislaw Obirek, a culture anthropologist, is a Professor at the American Studies Center, Warsaw University, Poland. He was a visiting professor at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA (2000), and a fellow at St. Louis University (2004). His books include 'Catholicism as a Cultural Phenomenon in the Time of Globalization: A Polish Perspective' (2009); 'Liberated Mind. In Search of a Mature Catholicism' (2011); and 'Pole Catholic?' (2015). His main interests are in the place of religion in modern cultures, interreligious dialogue, and strategies for overcoming conflicts between different civilizations and cultures. He has published articles in journals such as 'Shofar. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,' and including 19 articles indexed in the Central and Eastern European Online Library database.