Research

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 […]
20 September 2019

At the XXIV international conference of the Ethno-Anthropological Laboratory of Rocca Grimalda

Research team member Francesco Galofaro is participating in the XXIV international conference of the Ethno-Anthropological Laboratory of Rocca Grimalda (Alessandria), dedicated to the topic Rivolta: miti e pratiche dell’essere contro (‘Revolt: […]
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 […]
6 February 2019

The results of our work

This section will host the tangible outcomes of our team’s scientific efforts in studying the most recent articulations of the notion of sanctity: conference papers, journal articles, book chapters, and […]

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).