Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The course provides theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the relationship between religion and space, introducing the principal concepts developed within the study of religious space, from the geography of religion to the more recent geographies of religions. Theories, analytical categories, terminology, and research methods related to the location of the sacred, the social production of religious space, the materiality of religious practices, and the planning and regulation of religious sites will be presented and discussed.
Particular attention will be devoted to empirical research on the presence of religious sites in contemporary cities, which are increasingly characterized by cultural and religious diversity as a consequence of migration and diasporic processes. Within this framework, the course will examine the phenomenon of shared religious spaces as a privileged lens through which to understand forms of coexistence, interaction, and negotiation among different religious communities.
Rome will serve as the principal case study. Characterized by an extraordinary density of historical religious heritage and by the growing pluralization of its contemporary religious landscape, the city provides a particularly significant laboratory for examining the relationships between religion, urban space, cultural heritage, and religious diversity.
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
Programme
A historical and socio-spatial perspective on religion requires attention to the ways in which religious traditions are layered within territories and to the processes through which religious groups and institutions produce, occupy, transform, and share space. Since 2007, more than half of the world’s population has lived in urban areas, and cities have become key sites of encounter, conflict, negotiation, and religious innovation. They concentrate processes of pluralization, mobility, and social transformation that profoundly shape religious beliefs, practices, and forms of organization.The course provides theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the relationship between religion and space, introducing the principal concepts developed within the study of religious space, from the geography of religion to the more recent geographies of religions. Theories, analytical categories, terminology, and research methods related to the location of the sacred, the social production of religious space, the materiality of religious practices, and the planning and regulation of religious sites will be presented and discussed.
Particular attention will be devoted to empirical research on the presence of religious sites in contemporary cities, which are increasingly characterized by cultural and religious diversity as a consequence of migration and diasporic processes. Within this framework, the course will examine the phenomenon of shared religious spaces as a privileged lens through which to understand forms of coexistence, interaction, and negotiation among different religious communities.
Rome will serve as the principal case study. Characterized by an extraordinary density of historical religious heritage and by the growing pluralization of its contemporary religious landscape, the city provides a particularly significant laboratory for examining the relationships between religion, urban space, cultural heritage, and religious diversity.
Core Documentation
ATTENDING1. 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 2018Type of delivery of the course
Traditional lessons, fieldwork in small groupsAttendance
Live, with speeches and open questionsType of evaluation
questions concerning the programme teacher profile teaching materials
The course provides theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the relationship between religion and space, introducing the principal concepts developed within the study of religious space, from the geography of religion to the more recent geographies of religions. Theories, analytical categories, terminology, and research methods related to the location of the sacred, the social production of religious space, the materiality of religious practices, and the planning and regulation of religious sites will be presented and discussed.
Particular attention will be devoted to empirical research on the presence of religious sites in contemporary cities, which are increasingly characterized by cultural and religious diversity as a consequence of migration and diasporic processes. Within this framework, the course will examine the phenomenon of shared religious spaces as a privileged lens through which to understand forms of coexistence, interaction, and negotiation among different religious communities.
Rome will serve as the principal case study. Characterized by an extraordinary density of historical religious heritage and by the growing pluralization of its contemporary religious landscape, the city provides a particularly significant laboratory for examining the relationships between religion, urban space, cultural heritage, and religious diversity.
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
Programme
A historical and socio-spatial perspective on religion requires attention to the ways in which religious traditions are layered within territories and to the processes through which religious groups and institutions produce, occupy, transform, and share space. Since 2007, more than half of the world’s population has lived in urban areas, and cities have become key sites of encounter, conflict, negotiation, and religious innovation. They concentrate processes of pluralization, mobility, and social transformation that profoundly shape religious beliefs, practices, and forms of organization.The course provides theoretical and methodological tools for the analysis of the relationship between religion and space, introducing the principal concepts developed within the study of religious space, from the geography of religion to the more recent geographies of religions. Theories, analytical categories, terminology, and research methods related to the location of the sacred, the social production of religious space, the materiality of religious practices, and the planning and regulation of religious sites will be presented and discussed.
Particular attention will be devoted to empirical research on the presence of religious sites in contemporary cities, which are increasingly characterized by cultural and religious diversity as a consequence of migration and diasporic processes. Within this framework, the course will examine the phenomenon of shared religious spaces as a privileged lens through which to understand forms of coexistence, interaction, and negotiation among different religious communities.
Rome will serve as the principal case study. Characterized by an extraordinary density of historical religious heritage and by the growing pluralization of its contemporary religious landscape, the city provides a particularly significant laboratory for examining the relationships between religion, urban space, cultural heritage, and religious diversity.
Core Documentation
ATTENDING1. 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 2018Type of delivery of the course
Traditional lessons, fieldwork in small groupsAttendance
Live, with speeches and open questionsType of evaluation
questions concerning the programme