20710648 - RELIGIONS AND URBAN SPACES

Curriculum

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

A historical perspective on religions must grasp the stratification of their presence on the territory and reconstruct their dynamics and strategies: since 2007, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources and capital concerning religion. Innovations and trends concerning religious beliefs and practices are created in cities. Theoretical knowledge will be provided on the concept of religious space/place, the results of empirical research on the presence of religious places in increasingly plural spaces also due to migration movements and diaspora processes.

The main case study will be that of shared religious places. In particular, religious heritage in Rome. In particular, studies on the relationship between space and religion: from the geography of religion to the geographies of religions.

Theories, concepts, terminology, methods related to the study of religious places and the location of the sacred in space through materiality and planning relations will be exposed and discussed.


Core Documentation

Attending Students

1. Appunti del corso e materiali

2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
M. Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
Oppure D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013
Oppure M.C. Giorda, S. Omenetto (eds). Tra le mura romane. La nascita delle chiese protestanti nell’Italia risorgimentale. Torino: Claudiana.
Oppure M. Giorda, Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023
3. Sessione monografica Giorda 2024. History and Heritage of the Great Mosque of Rome. In: “Historia Religionum” 16. DOI: 10.19272/202404901002. ISSN print 2035-5572.


NOT ATTENDING
1. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 e
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).

2. D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013. Oppure M. Giorda, Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023 oppure M.C. Giorda, S. Omenetto (eds). Tra le mura romane. La nascita delle chiese protestanti nell’Italia risorgimentale. Torino: Claudiana.


3. Sessione monografica Giorda 2024. History and Heritage of the Great Mosque of Rome. In: “Historia Religionum” 16. DOI: 10.19272/202404901002. ISSN print 2035-5572. Oppure
Sessione monografica 2. Religioni e spazialità / Religions and Spatiality, a cura di Valeria Fabretti e Maria Chiara Giorda e 3. Religions and Digital Environments / Religioni e ambienti digitali https://books.fbk.eu/pubblicazioni/titoli/annali-di-studi-religiosi-24-2023/ on line open access


Reference Bibliography

C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018

Type of delivery of the course

Traditional lessons, fieldwork in small groups

Attendance

Live, with speeches and open questions

Type of evaluation

questions concerning the programme

teacher profile | teaching materials

Programme

A historical perspective on religions must grasp the stratification of their presence on the territory and reconstruct their dynamics and strategies: since 2007, more than half of the world's population lives in urban areas and cities have become the privileged space of contestations, conflicts, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources and capital concerning religion. Innovations and trends concerning religious beliefs and practices are created in cities. Theoretical knowledge will be provided on the concept of religious space/place, the results of empirical research on the presence of religious places in increasingly plural spaces also due to migration movements and diaspora processes.

The main case study will be that of shared religious places. In particular, religious heritage in Rome. In particular, studies on the relationship between space and religion: from the geography of religion to the geographies of religions.

Theories, concepts, terminology, methods related to the study of religious places and the location of the sacred in space through materiality and planning relations will be exposed and discussed.


Core Documentation

Attending Students

1. Appunti del corso e materiali

2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
M. Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
Oppure D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013
Oppure M.C. Giorda, S. Omenetto (eds). Tra le mura romane. La nascita delle chiese protestanti nell’Italia risorgimentale. Torino: Claudiana.
Oppure M. Giorda, Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023
3. Sessione monografica Giorda 2024. History and Heritage of the Great Mosque of Rome. In: “Historia Religionum” 16. DOI: 10.19272/202404901002. ISSN print 2035-5572.


NOT ATTENDING
1. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 e
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).

2. D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013. Oppure M. Giorda, Chiesa romena in Italia, Viella 2023 oppure M.C. Giorda, S. Omenetto (eds). Tra le mura romane. La nascita delle chiese protestanti nell’Italia risorgimentale. Torino: Claudiana.


3. Sessione monografica Giorda 2024. History and Heritage of the Great Mosque of Rome. In: “Historia Religionum” 16. DOI: 10.19272/202404901002. ISSN print 2035-5572. Oppure
Sessione monografica 2. Religioni e spazialità / Religions and Spatiality, a cura di Valeria Fabretti e Maria Chiara Giorda e 3. Religions and Digital Environments / Religioni e ambienti digitali https://books.fbk.eu/pubblicazioni/titoli/annali-di-studi-religiosi-24-2023/ on line open access


Reference Bibliography

C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018

Type of delivery of the course

Traditional lessons, fieldwork in small groups

Attendance

Live, with speeches and open questions

Type of evaluation

questions concerning the programme