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Fscire Research and Papers
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Volume Band 006 in this series
The adoption of new technological paradigms has recently shifted part of the scholarship on religions towards new research questions. Such a new condition stimulates scholarly curiosity which needs – to be effective and fertile – matching with technological infrastructures and access to physical and digital sources and research means. ITSERR (Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE) is a research project launched in 2022 with the goal of enhancing RESILIENCE, the European research infrastructure for the study of religions. Primary goal is to meet the evolving needs of its multidisciplinary scientific community and support the development of the national node of RESILIENCE. With the endorsement of new technological paradigms, the project is willing to play a pivotal role in enriching the diversity, quality and innovation of knowledge produced by the community of scholars investigating religions. The volume presents the first research and methodological outcomes achieved by the ITSERR team, composed of researchers in the humanities and information technologies.
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Volume Band 005 in this series
This volume is the outcome of the first international conference held in Istanbul in December 2022 and promoted by the Fondazione per le scienze religiose. It delves deeply into the Council of Nicaea’s historical significance, particularly its role in shaping the Nicene Creed. The various contributions meticulously examine the Creed’s development and its crucial role in defining Christian doctrine. Fresh perspectives are applied to understudied aspects of the Creed, such as its reception in different regions or its influence on theological debates. By charting new paths for future research, this work promises to be a valuable resource for scholars and anyone interested in the enduring legacy of the Council of Nicaea and its Creed.
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Volume Band 004 in this series
The history of the intertwined relationships woven by the Taizé Community amongst Christians of Eastern European countries in the second half of the last century has not yet been written. Yet it is a fundamental chapter for understanding the unique international influence of the community. The encounter with the different faces of a Christian youth beyond the Iron Curtain, who in Taizé had their first experience of a unified European space, was to become one of the main directions of the community’s effort from the early 1960s. The contributions of this volume intend to throw a first light on this story, relying on a completely unpublished documentation and on the testimony of many protagonists involved in the construction of this unique continental and ecumenical network.
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Volume Band 003 in this series
This volume aims to take up the theme of the relationship between faith and pestilence, which, despite its topicality, is rooted in a long-term dimension that involves different areas of knowledge. A markedly disciplinary look brings together historical, theological, political, and juridical analyses and thus allows to understand this relationship through paradigms, turning points, continuities, and discontinuities. Such a wide perspective makes it possible to observe how the theme has crossed ages and religions, from the fathers of the church, to medicine in medieval Islam, up to contemporary times, with Ivan Illich’s harsh critique of forced medicalization and the issues that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Volume Band 002 in this series
In September 1855, Teresa Dus, a Slovenian-speaking ten-year-old girl, saw the Virgin Mary in Porzûs. The apparitions began a devotion among the Slovenian population on the border between the Italian and Slovenian ethnicities and cultures. The ecclesiastical authorities of Udine took the child, locked her in a religious house and extinguished the devotion. The context was marked by a cholera epidemic and by the “national” and pan-Slavist problem, exacerbated by the Crimean war (1853–1856). Devotion to the Virgin had had an international flowering “from below” (La Salette, 1846), followed by the proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854). The dogma was then “sanctioned” by the apparitions of Lourdes (1858). The Porzûs affair is investigated in this international context.
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Volume Band 001 in this series
At what point is a place perceived as holy? And when does it become officially so in its definition? Inspired by the UNESCO debate and decisions made concerning holy places, the authors seek answers to these questions. “Naming the Sacred” is a diachronic excursus into the issues of perception and denomination of holy places. The volume examines historical cases in which names and places have been modified or literally eliminated and others where places were subject to policies of protection and tutelage. The work appertains to an ongoing, evolving global debate where the challenge of the reciprocal recognition of holy sites has become increasingly complex.
