Publications

18 December 2020

Libro – Semiotica del Natale (2020)

Anche quest’anno il nostro regalo per Natale è un libro che raccoglie ricerche e approfondimenti, presentati con taglio divulgativo, scritti dal nostro gruppo di ricerca e da altri studiosi di […]
9 December 2020

Book – Massimo Leone, Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle (eds.) (2020), “Mediation and Immediacy A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion”

(2020) Massimo Leone, Jenny Ponzo, Robert A. Yelle, (eds.), Mediation and Immediacy. A Key Issue for the Semiotics of Religion, De Gruyter (Semiotics of Religion, 4) Religion, like any other […]
9 December 2020

Book chapter – Jenny Ponzo (2020), Ex-voto e memoria culturale: una prospettiva semiotica (in R. Grimaldi, “Ex-voto d’Italia. Strategie di comportamento sociale, per grazia ricevuta”)

(2020), Ex-voto e memoria culturale: una prospettiva semiotica (in R. Grimaldi, “Ex-voto d’Italia. Strategie di comportamento sociale, per grazia ricevuta”) The full chapter – together with the book – is […]
9 December 2020

Article – Eleonora Chiais, Lorenzo Maida (2020), Dall’inspired by Africa al made in Africa: l’afro-couture vista da occidente (in “Echo. Rivista interdisciplinare di comunicazione”)

(2020) Dall’inspired by Africa al made in Africa: l’afro-couture vista da occidente Vestimentary choices are vehicles of identity because they create (and influence) the mechanisms of self-representation. When such choices […]
30 October 2020

Article – Marco Papasidero (2019) Memories and fama sanctitatis in the hagiographies and the canonization process of Gerard Majella (in “Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia”)

(2019) Memories and fama sanctitatis in the hagiographies and the canonization process of Gerard Majella (in “Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in Italia”) Abstract: Our article focuses on the fame […]
1 September 2020

NeMoSanctI special issue of Ocula, journal of Semiotics: “Flowers of the soul”

NeMoSanctI team members Francesco Galofaro, semiotician, and Marco Papasidero, historian of religions, have edited a special issue of Ocula. Semiotic eye on media, entitled Flowers of the soul: The Symbolism […]
13 May 2020

Jenny Ponzo’s “The Case of the ‘Offering of Life’ in the Causes for Canonization of Catholic Saints: The Threshold of Self‑Sacrifice”

May 2020, “International Journal for the Semiotics of Law” publishes a paper by Jenny Ponzo (NeMoSanctI ERC Project Principal Investigator) entiteled “The Case of the ‘Offering of Life’ in the […]
23 March 2020

Article – The semiotics of litanies from the Middle Ages to the YouTube era (2020)

NeMoSanctI members Jenny Ponzo, Francesco Galofaro and Gabriele Marino are proud to be part of this beautiful publication from Brill dedicated to the subject of the litany: The Litany in […]
11 February 2020

Book – Cassone, Ponzo, Thibault (2020 Eds.) Languagescapes. Ancient and Artificial Languages in Today’s Culture (Aracne)

Vincenzo Idone Cassone, Jenny Ponzo, Mattia Thibault (2020 Eds.) Languagescapes. Ancient and Artificial Languages in Today’s Culture (Aracne, Rome) Ancient and artificial languages have many roles and uses across cultures […]
24 December 2019

Libro – Semiotica e santità. Prospettive interdisciplinari (2019)

Il nostro regalo per il Natale 2019 è un libro di 230 pagine in italiano in cui presentiamo, in maniera divulgativa, i primi risultati delle nostre ricerche sulla semiotica della […]

NeMoSanctI is a research project carried out at the University of Turin. It studies how models of sanctity have changed after the Second Vatican Council. To this end, it applies a pioneering methodology based on semiotic theory to a wide corpus of normative, judicial, and narrative texts.

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757314).