(Dis)Embodiment in Religion and Ethics
It is difficult to think about religions without thinking about corporality and bodies, those of the faithful, their movements in prayer and liturgy, how they are purified, clothed, undressed and decorated according to precise spiritual codes, how bodies enter into the narratives of sacred texts, iconography, ritual representation, processions and pilgrimages, and how they are exhibited or hidden, disciplined or guided by religious dictates. Religion is also about the body, about bodies, about incorporation. But what happens to all this inventory of corporeality in a progressive, rapid and global transformation of human relations under the sign of increasing digitization, which does not eliminate bodies but encodes them in disembodied and transferable patterns? How are religions transformed after the shock of the pandemic, and how are bodies and corporeality reconfigured in digital religion? Moreover, if ethics has always also been the government of bodies in a society, what transformation does the ethics of the body undergo in the age of its digital reproducibility?
- 29 November – 2 December 2023 | FBK-ISR Annual Conference “The immersed meaning. Freedom and bewilderments of the digital body.”
- 28 November 2023 | Isabella Guanzini | Zordan Lecture
- 21 November 2023 | Valeria Fabretti | ‘Room on the Broom’: space and materiality in performing respect
- 7 November 2023 | Alessandra Vitullo | ‘The Word Became Net’. Multisite Churches: Creating Community from the Offline to the Online
- 23 October 2023 | Havi Carel | “Embodiment and Disembodiment in the Phenomenology of Medicine”
- 9 October 2023 | Danielle Spencer | Metagnosis: Narratives of Health and Identity
- 19 September 2023 | Maurizio Balistreri | Merging Minds andIndividuals: Moral Issues and Identity Problems
- 4-8 September 2023 | Convegno EASR 2023, “Religions and Technologies”, Panel FBK-ISR on “Religious Freedom and Artificial Intelligence: Protecting and Promoting Pluralism in Dis-Embodied Religion”
- 25 July 2023 | Ilaria Valenzi | Dematerializing gender and religions. Artificial intelligence, bias, discrimination
- 17 July 2023 | Lucia Galvagni | Disembodied souls and embodied self? A return of the body in spirituality and the soul in healthcare
- 7 July 2023 | Dinh Hong Hai | The Embodiments of Maitreya – God of Wealth in Vietnam
- 19-23 June 2023 | Convegno EuARe 2023, “Religion from the Inside”; panel FBK-ISR su “Embodiment and Dis-embodiment in Religion and Ethics”
- 6 June 2023 | Federica Buongiorno | Embodiment e “Sédigitale”
- 1 June 2023 | Fernanda Alfieri | The Body under Contract: Rules of Relationship in the Long Modern Age
- 24-27 May 2023 | International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law; panel FBK-ISR su “Dis-embodiment in Religion, Ethics, and Law”
- 27 April 2023 | Louis Hébert | The Three Bodies (Kāya) of a Buddha and the Christian Trinity
- 11-12 April 2023 | Giornate dottorali, Dottorato Nazionale in Scienze Religiose (DREST)
- 5 April 2023 | Teresa Pasquino | The Protection of the Self and the Other than Self in the Real and Virtual Dimensions of the Person
- 21 March 2023 | Matteo Bertolini | Bob’s Body. What Do Enlightenment Intellectuals Do of TheirFlesh and Bones?
- 1-4 March 2023 | International Forum of Religions
- 7 March 2023 | Pasquale Annicchino | ‘Going Qanon’: religione,digitalizzazione e la sfida della sicurezza
- 21 February 2023 | Paolo Costa | Sexuality and Personal Identity between Augustine and Foucault
- 30 January 2023 | Samanta Viziale | Dematerialization in Religious Art
- 20 January 2023 | Deborah Sabrina Iannotti | Non-binary embodiment: feminist and queer theologies in the re-writing of holy corpo-realities