Semiotics of Religion

At The Challange of Contemporary Religion

Jenny Ponzo and Francesco Galofaro are participating in the cicle of conferences “The Challange of Contemporary Religion”, that will be held at the University of Siena. They will talk about…
At AISS 2021

Jenny Ponzo, Eleonora Chiais and Francesco Galofaro are participating in the Associazione Italiana Studi Semiotici annual conference (1-3 October, 2021), on the topic “Semiotics of tourism”. The full programme is…
Book – Jenny Ponzo and Gabriele Vissio (eds.), Culture della persona: itinerari di ricerca tra semiotica, filosofia e scienze umane (aAccademia University Press, 2021)

Jenny Ponzo and Gabriele Vissio (eds.), Culture della persona: itinerari di ricerca tra semiotica, filosofia e scienze umane, Torino, aAccademia University Press, 2021 (Collana di studi del Centro di Scienze Religiose, 10). The…
Edited book – Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond (De Gruyter 2021)

It is now available the book Interpreting and Explaining Transcendence: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Beyond, edited by Robert A. Yelle (University of Munich) and ou PI Jenny Ponzo. In addition to…
At the EASR 2021

Team members Francesco Galofaro, Magdalena Maria Kubas and Marco Papasidero are participating in the EASR 2021 conference, Pisa, whose theme this year will be “Resilient Religion”. Their papers will be…
Article – J. Ponzo, Dinamiche di violenza nella pratica mistica del digiuno (Actes sémiotiques, 25/2021)

J. Ponzo, Dinamiche di violenza nella pratica mistica del digiuno, in “Actes sémiotiques”, 25 (2021) (read) Abstract Questo articolo si concentra su un corpus di agiografie che riguardano mistiche vissute…
At the 29th colloque Albi-Nîmes 2021

Team members Francesco Galofaro and Magdalena Maria Kubas are participating in the 29th Colloque Albi-Nîmes 2021. Their speech is entitled Ecological and counter-ecological discourse in Pope Francis’ tweets, and will…
Chapter – Francesco Galofaro, Introduzione, in C. Petrini, “La pratica religiosa cattolica ai tempi del Coronavirus” (Esculapio 2021)

F. Galofaro, Introduzione, in C. Petrini, La pratica religiosa cattolica ai tempi del Coronavirus. Tra lo spazio sacro e lo spazio virtuale, Esculapio 2021 (Quaderni di etnosemiotica). The foreword is available here.
At CESPEC

Our PI Jenny Ponzo is participating in Il ritorno della persona: prospettive contemporanee su persona e soggetto, organized by CESPEC. The event will take place online on the Facebook page of the Center, on 25 May, 2021, starting…
At the Seminar of Francesco Marsciani and Giuseppe Mazzarino

Team member Francesco Galofaro is participating, with a speech entitled “Divenire Pachamama” in the “Seminario sui fondamenti della teoria della significazione”, organized by Francesco Marsciani and Giuseppe Mazzarino at the…

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).