Research

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 […]
7 January 2020

Panel “Agiografie pop: dagli ex voto ai meme” at the conference “Comunicare la santità” (Rome, Jan. 21-23, 2020)

NeMoSanctI is participating in the conference “Comunicare la santità” (‘Communicating Sanctity’), organized by AISSCA-Associazione italiana per lo studio della santità, dei culti e dell’agiografia (‘The Italian Association for the study […]
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 […]
6 December 2019

Semiotics of Religion

The semiotics of religion was born within the French milieu in the 1970s, as a filiation, on the one hand, of literary semiotics (narratology and the work on narrativity carried […]
29 November 2019

At the conference “The Book and the Religions: Birth and Spread of the Sacred Text” (Senigallia, Nov. 30, 2019)

Reasearch team member Gabriele Marino, semiotician, is participating in the conference The Book and the Religions: Birth and Spread of the Sacred Text (Il libro e le religioni: nascita e […]
27 November 2019

At the conference “St. Angel the Carmelite: Art and Faith between Past and Present”

Research member Marco Papasidero, anthropologist and historian of Christianity, is participating in the conference Sant’Angelo carmelitano: arte e fede tra passato e presente (‘St. Angel the Carmelite: Art and Faith […]
19 November 2019

PERSONA: NeMoSanctI’s seminar of “Semiotics of Religious Cultures” (2019-2020) at the University of Turin

UPDATE Due to the Coronavirus issue, all NeMoSanctI’s activities are being suspended – for the moment – from February 24, 2020 to March 2, 2020. Here is the official piece […]
14 November 2019

At the “Doctoral Days 2019” of FINO-Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium

NeMoSanctI is participating in the “Doctoral Days 2019”, organized by the Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium (finophd.eu) and the Université du Luxembourg. Research team member Gabriele Vissio, philosopher, is presenting a talk entitled […]
13 November 2019

At the “CRAFT-Contemporary Religions and Faith in Transition” Research Center

NeMoSanctI is participating in the “Contemporary Religions and Faith in Transition” (CRAFT) seminar. The title of the event is Santi e veggenti tra Storia del Cristianesimo e Antropologia filosofica (‘Saints […]
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 […]

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).