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Religious Diaspora: A New Approach to Its Existence and Meaning
2021
The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diaspora are actualized in each situation under study. The evaluation unravels the strengths of the concept as well as certain aspects that still need to be addressed in further research. The inference is that the capacity of religion to generate diaspor…
L’IDEOLOGIA RELIGIOSA NELL’EDITTO DI ESPULSIONE DEGLI EBREI DALLA SICILIA
2022
Religion, Ideology, Politics, and Law. A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Frame of European History
Introduction
2013
This introduction suggests regarding ‘religion’ as a cultural product. The relationship between religion and memory can be investigated through the practice of oath-taking, a particularly sophisticated social tool in ancient Greece. It concerns, in fact, both the status of social trust and problematic intercourses between gods and human beings, who fi nd in oath a regulated and effective space of interrelation.
Glaucus and the Importance of Being Earnest. Herodotus 6.86 on Memory and Trust, Oath and Pain
2013
It is above all in the archaic cultures, when the discrimen between religious and political facts is not yet clearly defined and there lacks an autonomous law system, which the oath discloses its irreplaceable role which supports the memory, safeguarding social dynamics in all its public or private forms. The wealth of the cases presented in the Histories by Herodotus offers a phenomenology of the oath, useful to illustrate the mechanisms and the coherent symbolic universe of reference. The oaths illustrate, in an exemplary manner, the search for guarantees against neglect, mutability and deception with gestures that evoke images of irrevocability, with the use of immanent and durable items…
recensione di VAVOURANAKIS, GIORGOS, KOPANIAS, KONSTANTINO S, and KANELLOPOULOS, CHRYSANTHOS (eds.) (2018). Popular Religion and Ritual in Prehistori…
2020
Review of the volume that aims to contribute to the analysis of the experiential dimension of cults and beliefs (la religion vécue). The common thread running through the contributions collected here share the basic idea, that religion and ritual have to do with the collective ethos and the values they regulate the functioning of the company, thanks to their "performative stability" mechanism.
Images du charisme : sainte Colette dans l'iconographie religieuse
2016
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La mala educación
2020
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Le "manteau de la religion" couvrant le vide : la critique du catholicisme dans "Comment on meurt" et "Comment on se marie" d’Émile Zola
2019
The paper discusses Emile Zola’s critical opinion about the Catholicism revealed in two novellas, Comment on meurt (Death) and Comment on se marie (Modern marriage). The two texts, depicting crucial moments of human existence in various social classes, show the general lack of faith within the French society of the Second Empire and the superficial character of religious rituals considered as a simple element of tradition. The attitude of the clergy, hypocritical and greedy, is an important factor of this situation.
Representations of individuals in discourses of laïcité from Le Monde : confirming or challenging the republican framework of identity?
2017
In recent decades, the notions of laïcité and identity have been subjects of controversy in France. The two concepts have become sufficiently co-associated since the 1990s to ensure each almost systematically entails the other. Findings from previous studies have pointed out harmful implications of this pervasive association for minorities in France, especially Muslims. This study examines further the ways laïcité and identity are interwoven by exploring who is represented (and how) in newspaper articles from Le Monde dealing with laïcité. Informed by critical intercultural communication scholarship, intersectionality, and a Foucaultian approach to discourse, this study pays particular atte…