Upcoming events
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The talk, which is part of the Nothing is Ever Lost seminar series in memory of sociologist Massimo Rosati, addresses the theme of the relationship between space and the sacred.More info
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In a seminar linked to the Euregio project “Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond,” Nikolas Kompridis (University of Toronto) discusses the current loss of trust in democracy as an epistemological crisis and asks how to get out of it by creating a new “public” and new political formsMore info
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The seminar dwells on three different phases of Nigerian Christian history: the full development of Ethiopianism (ca. 1890-1900), the beginnings of the Aladura movement (ca. 1920-1930), and the spread of the “gospel of prosperity” in contemporary Pentecostal churches. The emphasis will be on the configurations that Christianity has given to forms of “traditional” religiosity at each juncture.More info
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The seminar "Digital Divinity: Intersection between Religion and Screen Culture" explores philosophical foundations of screen culture, Christian matrices of digital environments, digital media's theological implications, and religious practice challenges in the digital era, ending with a roundtable discussion.More info
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The final conference of the REBE project will present - together with international experts - the results of two years of research on the nature of resilient beliefs. What is it that distinguishes “rational” from “irrational,” “good” from “bad” forms of belief resilience? And what about religious beliefs?More info
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What did secularization and disenchantment represent, as historical events? And what contributions did Christian and anti-Christian arguments make to these events? My talk will offer some tentative answers to these questions by focusing on Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651), one of the foundational works of secular politics.More info
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23 February 2024"Nothing is ever lost". Ciclo di seminari in memoria di Massimo Rosati Febbraio – Novembre 2024More info
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21 February 2024Ciclo: "Malattie dell'anima, disturbi della mente. I saperi umanistici e la medicina" comitato organizzatore: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia di Unitn in collaborazione con FBK-ISR.More info
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10 January 2024The interplay between enchantment and disenchantment in the realm of religion has been a topic of profound interest and scholarly investigation throughout history. This seminar explores the dialectical relationship between enchantment and disenchantment in the context of religious beliefs, practices, and experiences.More info
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16 October 2023On Thursday, October 19, 2023, from 9.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., a roundtable discussion will be held on “The Meanings of Creation” at the Auditorium of the “F. A. Bonporti” Conservatory of Music in Trento. Speakers include, among others, D. Assael, M. Giuliani, M.A.M. Pusterla, M. Camerini.More info
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02 October 2023Debora Tonelli edited a new collection of essays titled "Fra kósmos e pólis: identità e cittadinanza da una prospettiva Mediterranea" (2023), which includes seven works from Mediterranean scholars exploring the concepts of identity and citizenship, particularly in the context of globalization.More info
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31 July 2023Massimo Leone and Marco Ventura, Director and former Director of ISR, respectively, co-chair, along with Alessandra Vitullo, a panel on religion and artificial intelligence at the 20th Annual Congress of the European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), Vilnius, Sept. 4-8, 2023.More info