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Recensione a Paolo Scarpi, Si fa presto a dire Dio. Riflessioni per un multiculturalismo religioso, Milano 2010, pp. 149, ISBN 978-88-6220-120-9
2011
Recensione a Paolo Scarpi, Si fa presto a dire Dio. Riflessioni per un multiculturalismo religioso, Milano 2010
recensione Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes (eds), Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego
2020
recensione del volume edito da Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes, sul tema "Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego" Review of Esteban Calderón Dorda, Sabino Perea Yébenes (eds), Estudios sobre el vocabulario religioso griego
rec. D. Foraboschi, Violenze Antiche. Testo pubblicato postumo a cura di Silvia Bussi
2020
review of Daniele Foraboschi, Violenze Antiche: Testo pubblicato postumo a cura di Silvia Bussi. Il volume di Daniele Foraboschi è uscito postumo, poco dopo la scomparsa dell’autore l’11 settembre 2018. Ne è curatrice Silvia Bussi, cui si deve anche un ritratto intellettuale di Foraboschi
Un Churel Mandir in Gujarat. Note sulla diffusione delle rappresentazioni della figura della strega in India
2021
The churels are figures of the folk imagery of a vast area of South Asia. They, commonly identified with witches, are spirits of women who died during pregnancy or childbirth, and who return to the world of the living, possessing them. The aim of this study is to provide an interpretative analysis of the representations of the churels and of the ambiguous climate that has been created around these figures in recent decades in India. A reflection on the power of the representations of the churels throughout history up to present-day India could be considered a key to penetrating the dense network of relationships and reinventions, but also of divergences and contradictions, sometimes with tr…
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…
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…
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).