Semiotics of Religion

5 September 2019

Hosting a conference by Prof. Alessandra Pozzo about religious fasting

NeMoSanctI is hosting a conference by Prof. Alessandra Pozzo (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) entitled Il digiuno e i suoi immaginari: Archetipi e criteri per la classificazione di […]
4 September 2019

At the 14th World Congress of Semiotics, Buenos Aires 2019

NeMoSanctI PI, Prof. Jenny Ponzo, and research team member Gabriele Marino, both semioticians, are participating in the 14th World Congress of Semiotics, dedicated to the theme of “Trajectories” and which […]
9 June 2019

At the 17th conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR)

The PI, Jenny Ponzo, is participating in the 17th annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), which will take place in Tartu, Estonia, from June 25 […]
28 April 2019

#SemioPills 3: Ugo Volli

Ugo Volli (b. 1948, Trieste) is a prominent Italian intellectual and a leading figure in the fields of semiotics and the philosophy of language. A close friend and collaborator of […]
7 April 2019

#SemioPills 2: Jörg Rüpke

Jörg Rüpke is a leading figure in the field of comparative religion and classical philology, and a renowned expert in Roman religion. He is full professor and deputy director of […]
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 March 2019

Semiotics of Religion seminar at the University of Turin

The seminar Semiotica della Religione (Semiotics of Religion) held by Jenny Ponzo in the framework of the project NeMoSanctI and of the Master’s Degree in Comunicazione e Culture dei Media […]
28 February 2019

#SemioPills 1: Massimo Leone

We are happy to launch our series of video-interviews with the most prominent scholars in the field of semiotics of religion, and to start with Massimo Leone. Massimo Leone is […]
6 February 2019

An online guide to our field of study

This section will host a series of introductory posts to semiotics and to the semiotics of religion. Different textual genres (definitions, bibliographies, summaries, interviews etc.) and different types of semiotic resources […]

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).