Publications

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 […]
15 October 2019

Monographic issue – Lexia 31-32: The Semiotics of Martyrdom

Lexia – Rivista di semiotica 31-32: The Semiotics of Martyrdom Edited by Nemosancti – New Models of Sanctity in Italy PI Jenny Ponzo The notion of martyrdom, originally formulated within Christian tradition, has soon assumed a wider […]
29 July 2019

Article – Jenny Ponzo (2019) Vetus Ordo Missae: Italian Catholic priests facing the revival of Latin and traditional liturgy (in “Social Semiotics”)

Jenny Ponzo (2019) Vetus Ordo Missae: Italian Catholic priests facing the revival of Latin and traditional liturgy (in “Social Semiotics”) (link) Abstract: The liturgical reform promoted by the Second Vatican Council […]
21 March 2019

Book – Jenny Ponzo (2019) Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council: A Semiotic Analysis (De Gruyter)

Jenny Ponzo (2019) Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council: A Semiotic Analysis (De Gruyter) The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) diagnosed the impact of secularization on literature […]
8 October 2018

Presenting the book Donne sugli Altari

The PI, Jenny Ponzo, is taking part in the presentation of the book Donne sugli altari: Le canonizzazioni femminili di Giovanni Paolo II, by Valentina Ciciliot (Viella, March 2018), which will take place […]

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).