Research

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…

13 November 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…

15 October 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:…

20 September 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…

29 July 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…

21 March 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…

6 February 2019

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).

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).