Semiotics of Religion

Special Section – “A Whole Lifeworld in a Room” (Annali di studi religiosi, 24, 2023)

Annali di Studi religiosi [“Annals of Religious Studies”], is the double-blind peer-reviewed journal of the Center for Religious Studies at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, directed by Massimo Leone. Issue 24…
At the international conference “Mezzo secolo di italianistica a Cracovia. L’Italia e il suo patrimonio culturale, letterario, linguistico”.

Yesterday our Team member Maria Magdalena Kubas presented a speech entitled “Una Maddalena dimenticata: sull’eredità del Settecento, piemontese ed europeo” [“A forgotten Magdalene: on the legacy of the eighteenth century,…
At Religioni nel libro

Religioni del libro [religions in the book] is a series of meetings for the presentation of books on the religious phenomenon in history, culture, law and society. The meetings will…
At UNight 2023, the European Night of Researchers

NeMoSancti participates in UNIGHT, the European night of researchers in Turin, within the Signs, sense, communication laboratory curated by CIRCe. You can find us Friday 29 September starting at 8.30pm…
Article – Jenny Ponzo, Semiotics of Religion (Zeitschrift für Semiotik, 2023)

Jenny Ponzo, “Semiotics of Religion”, Zeitschrift für Semiotik, vol. 44, n. 1-2/2022, August 2023. Summary. This paper provides an overview of the main research lines developed in the 2000s in Italy in the field of…
At the seminar “Il senso della pace: prospettive sulla semiotica della guerra”

Our PI Jenni Ponzo and Paolo Bertetti will participate in the Doctoral in the seminar “Il senso della pace: prospettive sulla semiotica della guerra” [The meaning of peace: perspectives on the semiotics of war],…
Articles – NeMoSanctI on “Sign Systems Studies”

A special issue of Sign Systems Studies dedicated to “Religion in the semiosphere“, edited by Thomas-Andreas Põder, Matthew L. Kalkman, has just been published. The number – Vol. 51 No.…
“Forma Sanctitatis” – NeMoSanctI International Conference: the Gallery

Forma Sanctitatis”, the International Conference of the ERC Project NeMoSanctI, was held from 6 to 8 September in the Graduation Room of the Aldo Moro complex, at the University of…
Forma Sanctitatis – NeMoSanctI International Conference

“Forma Sanctitatis” is the International Conference of the ERC Project NeMoSanctI. The conference will be held from 6 to 8 September in the Graduation Room of the Aldo Moro complex…
Forma Sanctitatis – NeMoSanctI International Conference: the Program

NeMoSanctI International Conference “Forma Sanctitatis” is approaching. We are very pleased to present the complete program of the three days. The conference will be held from 6 to 8 September…

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).