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Il culto dei gatti in India. Continuità ed evoluzione di credenze e pratiche religiose dall’India vedica all’India contemporanea
2019
Cat as an animal is a sporadic presence in Vedic mythology and Brahmanic works on rituals, while it appears in a few cult practices of contemporary popular religiosity in India. This article holds that in Indian devotional practices, the cat is conceived as an animal with an ambiguous nature. It also suggests that the cat cult is linked with the need to tame chaos, violence, and con$ict, and to place them in a controlled, orderly, and pacified cosmos. To understand these phenomena, this article studies, from a multidisciplinary perspective, contemporary religious practices in the light of the Indian tradition, and suggests that the cat cult was subject to substantial Brahmanization.
Una forma leggiadra. Simboli sessuali dell'altalena in India nel rito del mahavrata e in alcune pratiche contemporanee
2022
In the grammar of rituals described in Vedic texts, the swing was an object whose meanings referred to the propitiation of fertility and solar symbolism. Although its use remains in various contemporary festive contexts, its meaning has been differently defined. By analyzing the passages from works belonging to the ancient religious literature, this article examines the description of the swing’s construction and the rite performed on it by the officiant named hotr. Such an approach allows us to focus on the symbolic elements related to the swing in one of the focal points of the sequence of the mahavrata ceremony. Through a diachronic investigation and considering the data from the compara…
Dendrolatrie. Miti e pratiche dell'immaginario arboreo
2021
L’avvento dell’Antropoce, epoca in cui l’essere umano è diventato una forza geologica, scompagina la divisione del sapere tra scienze umane e naturali. Per comprenderlo, è necessario costruire nuove forme di alleanza tra discipline. È quanto invita a fare anche il fe- nomeno delle dendrolatrie. Diffuso in ogni luogo e in ogni epoca, il culto degli alberi testimonia come il mondo arboreo abbia plasma- to modi di vivere e di pensare, venendone a sua volta trasformato. Per scavare nella complessità di questo scambio, il volume racco- glie i frutti del dialogo tra un gruppo interdisciplinare di ricercatrici e ricercatori che esplorano l’immaginario arboreo in tre direzioni: quella degli studi s…
In the footsteps of the cows The ritual of gavāmayana between ancient and contemporary India
2022
Codified in classical Vedic times (8th-4th century BCE), the gavāmayana (‘the cow path’) was a year-long ritual session (sāmvatsarikasattra), which accompanied the succession of months of the Vedic religious calendar and ended with the celebration of mahāvrata (‘the great vow’) during the winter solstice. Marking the conclusion of the arduous ritual journey, it celebrated rebirth and consecrated the beginning of the new year. The book investigates gavāmayana based on a philological analysis of the texts and on a historical-religious and anthropological perspective, focusing on ancient India and some contemporary practices. The mahāvrata, in particular, seems to preserve the memory of very a…
Ragazze folli di miele, Il miele e la celebrazione della parola nel rito del mahāvrata
2021
In these pages, we will explore the rite of mahāvrata, a Vedic rite connected to the celebration of the new year, from a study perspective aimed at the performative dimension. Specifically, I will focus on the final scene of the rite, because it is only at this moment that the actors and the ritual dynamics compose a particular scenario, evocative of fertility, in which some maidens, the ritual fire, and honey are the protagonists. The maidens are called upon to dance around the mārjālīya hearth and to intone a chant in which they repeat the word madhu ("honey") in an increasingly frenzied manner. The words spoken, in some cases meaningless formulas, reveal a unitary sense and hint at the f…
Dal divino all'umano: percorso per un dialogo interreligioso nell'epoca post-secolare
2016
In its phenomenological and hermeneutic declination philosophy of religions is today in a fruitful dialogue with theology of religions as concerns the investigation of the conditions of possibility of the interreligious dialogue and its praxis. The subjective opening to the otherness gives an interesting perspective in order to think the interreligious dialogue as a kind of agapic relationship between the subjects that are strangers for each other and in which a honest use of logos is necessary. Following this perspective we note not only a philosophical correction of transcendental subjectivity, but also an elaboration of the concept of God which subverts the onto-theological tradition acc…
Rencesione a A. Fabris, Filosofia delle religioni
2012
Recensione al vol. di A. Fabris, Filosofia delle religioni, Carocci, Roma 2012
Recensione a K. Freitag – P. Funke – M. Haake (Hgb.), Kult – Politik – Ethnos. Überregionale Heiligtümer im Spannungsfeld von Kult und Politik, Stutt…
2008
Recensione a volume sul Convegno internazionale tenutosi a Muenster nel 2006 dal titolo: Kult – Politik – Ethnos. Überregionale Heiligtümer im Spannungsfeld von Kult und Politik
Jörg Rüpke (Hrsg.) Antike Religionsgeschichte in räumlicher Perspektive Abschlussbericht zum Schwerpunktprogramm 1080 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeins…
2008
Il volume curato da Jörg Rüpke, con la collaborazione di Franca Fabricius, è un report che raccoglie e rendiconta, nella forma di 38 brevi contributi seguiti da bibliografia, i risultati di un progetto promosso dalla Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft sul tema Römische Reichsreligion und Provinzialreligion: Globalisierungs- und Regionalisierungsprozesse in der antiken Religionsgeschichte della durata complessiva di circa sei anni (2001- 2007).