Semiotics of Religion

3 April 2020

#SemioPills 6: Jenny Ponzo

Jenny Ponzo is Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Turin (Italy). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC research project NeMoSanctI. She is the Director of 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 […]
13 February 2020

#SemioPills 5: Daniele Solvi

Daniele Solvi (1971) è professore aggregato di Letteratura latina medievale e umanistica presso l’Università della Campania “Luigi vanvitelli”, ed è membro del Consiglio direttivo dell’AISSCA (Associazione Italiana per lo Studio […]
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 […]
25 November 2019

#SemioPills 4: Robert Yelle

Robert A. Yelle (b. 1966) is a distinguished American scholar in the fields of semiotics, anthropology, and history of religion. He is Professor of “Theory and Method of Religious Studies” […]
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 […]
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 […]

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).