Indice

Introduction to Issue 2024 of “Annali di studi religiosi”
Massimo Leone
pp. 11-24
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146681


Sezione 1
Embodiment and Disembodiment in Religion and Ethics

Introduction: Religious and Ethical Aspects of Embodiment and Disembodiment
Boris Rähme
pp. 27-28
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146682

Embodiment, Disembodiment, and Overembodiment: Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Augustine on the Significance of Sexuality in Human Life
Paolo Costa
pp. 29-47
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146683

Room for Otherness: Body, Space, and Materiality in the Investigation of Respect within Multi–Religious Cities and Spaces
Valeria Fabretti
pp. 49-66
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146684

Disembodied Souls and Embodied Selves? The Return of the Soul in Medicine and of the Body in Spirituality
Lucia Galvagni
pp. 67-81
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146685

Tengri Calling: Decolonizing Cultural Narratives in Contemporary Kazakhstan
Sara Hejazi
pp. 83-97
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146686

“With My Whole Being”: The Experience of Ignatian Journey. A Provocation for Spiritual Imagination
Debora Tonelli
pp. 99-117
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146687

Acting out and Acting in: Analyzing Digital and Virtual Liturgy
Shannon Craigo-Snell
pp. 119-136
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146688


Sezione 2
A Disciplined Interdisciplinarity

Introduction: A Disciplined Interdisciplinarity
Massimo Leone
pp. 139-143
DOI Number: 10.53136/97912218146689

Learning History and Learning from History: The Case of the Axial Age
Marco Barbieri
pp. 145-163
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466810

Traiettorie del nichilismo: appunti sull’etica moderna
Nicolò Germano
pp. 165-183
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466811

La presenza della soluzione grafica detta Odighìtria nel panorama religioso pugliese: problematiche formali e comunicative relative a un prodotto visuale destinato al culto
Antonio Pio Di Cosmo
pp. 185-243
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466812

Le Catacombe dei Cappuccini di Palermo: note sullo studio transdisciplinare del patrimonio culturale d’interesse religioso
Rebecca Sabatini
pp. 245-263
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466813


Sezione 3
Theology and Philosophy in Dialogue: Between Threshold, Imagination, and Emic Dimension

Introduction
Debora Tonelli
pp. 267-270
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466814

The Veiled Threshold: A Narrative Interpretation of the Temple in the Christian Revelation
Salvatore Rindone
pp. 271-290
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466815

The Threshold between Human Rational Research and Revelation in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Contra Gentiles
Vincenzo Serpe
pp. 291-307
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466816

Ecumenical Theology from the Emic: Biblical Language as a Threshold between Truth and Communal Belief in the Postliberal Theology of H. Frei and G. Lindbeck
Pierangelo Bianco
pp. 309-326
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466817

The Biblical Imaginary in Political Thought: The Example of the Consensus
Debora Tonelli
pp. 327-343
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466818

Towards a Postcolonial Theology of Nonviolence: An Interreligious Path of Resistance Against Coloniality
Stefan Silber
pp. 345-360
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466819


Sezione 4
Minorities and Autonomies: Dialogues on Rights

Introduction: Religious Minorities
Silvio Ferrari
pp. 363-372
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466820

The Legal Concept of Autonomy in its Application to and within Religious Minorities: Unity of Differentiation?
Ilaria Valenzi
pp. 373-396
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466821

Minority Cultural Governance through Autonomy Arrangements as a Means of Exercising Agency
Kyriaki Topidi
pp. 397-419
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466822

Rationales, Categories, Solutions, and Constraints in the Management of Linguistic Diversity: From Language to Religion … and Back?
Mattia Zeba
pp. 421-457
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466823

Autonomy and Promotion of Religious Minorities’ Rights: A Historical-Legal
Perspective
Rossella Bottoni
pp. 459-501
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466824
 
Religious and Belief Identities: The European Paradigm of the Secular State
Roberto Toniatti
pp. 503-538
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466825

Sette domande sui diritti delle minoranze di religione e convinzione e sulla loro misurazione
Silvio Ferrari, Roberto Toniatti
pp. 539-579
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466826


Sezione 5
Mortali. Riflessioni sull’arte di vivere

ntroduzione: mortali; vivere nonostante
Lucia Galvagni
pp. 583-590
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466827

La vita: un viaggio di cui prendersi cura
Loreta Rocchetti
pp. 591-607
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466828

Le cure palliative incontrano Ifigenia
Giada Lonati
pp. 609-620
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466829


Sezione 6
Miscellanea

Ludger H. Viefhues–Bailey, No Separation: Christians, Secular Democracy, and Sex. A Critical Notice
Paolo Costa
pp. 623-629
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466830

Indifference towards Dehumanization: A Political–Philosophical Approach to the Trafficking of Women
Elena Cuomo
pp. 631-645
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466831

Una “nazione cristiana”? Sovranità, identità nazionale e appartenenza religiosa a Tuvalu
Nicola Manghi
pp. 647-662
DOI Number: 10.53136/979122181466832

Authors’ biographies / Biografie degli autori
pp. 663

Autori

Marco Barbieri is PhD Student at DREST (Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies) and conducts his studies at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples. His main areas of research are philosophy of history and philosophy of religion; his current project focuses on Karl Jaspers and aims to link Jaspers’ vision of history (with a focus on the concept of Axial Age) with his work on religious issues. He has published multiple papers and given lectures on these topics and also on authors such as Karl Löwith, Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Ernst Troeltsch. More in general, his areas of interest include 20th–century philosophy, moral philosophy, and Existentialism.

Pierangelo Bianco is PhD Student of the International Doctorate in Contemporary Humanism, curriculum of Philosophy and Religion at the LUMSA University of Rome and in collaboration with the Universidade Católica Portuguesa of Lisbon. Graduated in Philosophical Sciences in 2018 at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In 2019 he obtained a diploma of specialization in Cultural Sciences at the International School of High Studies of the Collegio San Carlo Foundation of Modena. In the same year he took an intervention at the Graduate Student Colloquium of the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary (New Jersey), later published the article Karl Barth e le religioni: dialettica o dialogo in the “Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione”. Currently his research focuses on the theme of religious truth in the postliberal theology of G. Lindbeck, starting from his relationship with the philosophy of L. Wittgenstein and the anthropology of C. Geertz.

Rossella Bottoni is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento, where she teaches Law and Religion, and Introduction to Islamic Law. She obtained her PhD from the University of Florence, with a thesis on The Origins of Secularism in Turkey (1839–1938). In 2007, her PhD thesis was awarded the Arturo Carlo Jemolo Award for the best PhD thesis in the fields of Canon Law, Ecclesiastical Law, History of State–Church Relationships and Comparative Law of Religion. She was Researcher at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Milan, and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Political and Legal Sciences and International Studies at the University of Padua. Her research interests include law and religion from a comparative perspective; the religious factor in European and African constitutions; religious and belief minorities in Europe; the legal condition of women and the legal regulation of conversion and marriage in religious laws; religious dietary rules, religious slaughter and halal certification; secularism, Islam and minority religions in Turkey. She has published extensively on these topics in academic journals and edited volumes. She is author of two monographs in Italian language: Il principio di laicità in Turchia. Profili storico–giuridici (Vita e Pensiero, 2012), and Diritto e fattore religioso nello spazio europeo (Giappichelli, 2023). She is co–editor of Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism (Springer, 2016), Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws (Routledge, 2019), and Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief (Routledge, 2021). She has been a member of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (ICLARS) since 2008, and Research Associate of the Centre for Law and Religion at Cardiff University since 2009. She is a member of the editorial committee of the issue no. 2 of Quaderni di diritto e politica ecclesiastica. She has presented papers in international conferences inter alia in Beer Sheva, Bologna, Bratislava, Brussels, Cardiff, Como, Copenhagen, Córdoba, Geneva, Istanbul, Leuven, Louvain–la–Neuve, Milan, Murcia, Nantes, Oslo, Paris, Rome, St Andrews, Strasbourg, Tel Aviv, Trent, Turin and Zagreb. She is one of the principal investigators of the Atlas of Religious or Belief Minority Rights (https://atlasminorityrights.eu/). The research projects she has participated include: DIALREL. Religious slaughter, improving knowledge and expertise through dialogue and debate on issues of welfare, legislation and socio–economic aspects (6th EU Framework Programme 2006–2010); RELIGARE. Religious diversity and secular models in Europe. Innovative approaches to law and policy (7th EU Framework Programme 2010–2013); From Legal Pluralism to the Intercultural State. Personal Law, Exceptions to General Rules and Imperative Limits in the European Legal Space (2017 Research Project of National Relevance); UNITE. UNIversal design for education: legal perspective for a new conception (2022 Research Project of National Relevance); Preventing discrimination and persecution. Models of inclusion of religious minorities in the Euro–mediterranean space (ReMinEm) (https://atlasminorityrights.eu/reminem/#); Inclusion of religious minorities and development of multicultural dialogue for the growth of democracy. The potentialities of the Italian model in the Mediterranean area (MiReDiaDe) (https://atlasminorityrights.eu/mirediade/#).

Paolo Costa (1966), philosopher, is a Tenured Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). His main fields of research are philosophical anthropology, moral and political philosophy, theory of secularization, modern spiritualities. He is the Italian translator of works by H. Arendt, C. Taylor, C. Darwin, and others. Among his books: La ragione e i suoi eccessi (Milan 2014); The Post–Secular City (Paderborn 2022; or. ed. Brescia 2019); L’arte dell’essenziale (Udine 2023).

Rev. Dr. Shannon Craigo–Snell is a systematic and constructive Christian theologian. Originally from West Virginia, Craigo–Snell earned her bachelor’s degree from Guilford College before attending Yale, where she received her M. Div. and Ph. D. She began her teaching career in 2001 in the Religious Studies department at Yale University, where she taught undergraduates, masters students, and Ph.D. students. In 2011, she became professor of theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where she teaches Masters and Doctor of Ministry students as they engage in multiple forms of ministry. In 2014, Craigo–Snell was ordained as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Since then she has been invited to teach workshops and lead worship in churches across the country. In all of her work, Craigo–Snell brings the wisdom of theology into conversation with contemporary issues so that each might teach and learn from the other. Her areas of interest focus on feminist and Reformed theologies, anti–racism, theology and theater, and formation for religious experience. Beneath these subjects is the larger need to rethink what it means to be human together today. Committed to engaging the church, the academy, and the public square, Craigo–Snell has published over 50 articles, essays, and sermons as well as being part of podcasts and videos. After writing her first book for scholars, Silence, Love, and Death: Saying “Yes” to God in the Theology of Karl Rahner, Craigo–Snell collaborated with Rev. Dr. Shawnthea Monroe to co–author a book for a wide audience: Living Christianity: Pastoral Theology for Today. Craigo–Snell’s next book was an academic, constructive theological work, The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope, followed by another collaboration, this time with activist Christopher Doucot: No Innocent Bystanders: Becoming an Ally in the Struggle for Justice. Her most recent book is Disciplined Hope: Prayer, Politics, and Resistance. Currently Craigo–Snell is working on a book–length theological commentary on the Gospel of John to be published in the Belief series.

Elena Cuomo is confirmed Researcher of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Naples, Federico II; since 2005/2006 she has been teaching Simbolica Politica as an adjunct professor of Political Philosophy (SPS01) and of History of Political Thought (SPS02); since /01/2023 passed the National Qualification Procedure for Associate Professor in Political Philosophy. Currently collaborates with the course of “European cultural mediator for interculture and social cohesion” created by the Community of Sant’Egidio and the Faculty of Political Sciences. She worked at the University of Saarland (1995/96), Institute of legal and social philosophy, Saarbrücken, Germany. Author of several monographs on authors of European political philosophy, she recently published the books: Tutta colpa di Ismene? Interrogativi e questioni Simbolico–Politiche sulla tratta delle donne nella società contemporanea, Mimesis, Milano–Udine 2018.; (ed.), Per le strade della disumanizzazione. Profili filosofico–politici, etici, giuridici, Studium, Roma 2021; Some of her works includes: Solo lo sguardo salva. Sulla mercificazione delle donne schiave nelle democrazie occidentali, in “Rassegna di Teologia”, Napoli 2021; Benessere e Ben–essere. Corpi, vulnerabilità, non violenza, in Aa.Vv., Qualità della vita: ripartire dai territori, Libro dei contenuti brevi del VII Convegno Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana per gli Studi sulla Qualità della vita, University Press, Genova 2022; “Cura e cittadinanza. Prospettive possibili per la vita in comune”, in C. Faraco, M.P. Paternò (eds.), Cura e cittadinanza. Storia, filosofia, diritto, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli 2021; “Il concetto di cultura. Percorsi tra coscienza e dissenso”, in D. Caldevilla Domìnguez (ed.), Manifestaciones del humanismo en el siglo XXI, Tirant lo Blanch ed., Valencia 2021; “Oltre l’amicizia e la compassione, riflessioni sulla disumanità e sulla cura a partire da una traccia di Hannah Arendt”, in C. Faraco, M.P. Paternò (eds.), Cura e Politica, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli 2022; “La tratta delle donne come schiavitù sommersa”, in D. Caldevilla Domìnguez (ed.), Comunicacion Investigacion y Docencia, Editorial Forum Internacional de Comunicaciòn y relaciones pùblicas, Madrid 2023; “L’assoggettamento violento della tratta crea subumano”, in Aa.Vv., Donne gravemente sfruttate. Il diritto di essere protagoniste, Slaves no More Rapporto 2024, in press.

Antonio Pio Di Cosmo is Researcher Associate at The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization Centre of Excellence of the World Academy of Art & Science in Bucharest and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and enrolled in the National Ph.D. Course in Religious Studies, DREST. He is a member of the ITSERR project too.He held his first Ph.D. in Archaeology at the University of Cordoba and defended in 2017 his doctoral thesis: «I motivi erranti della regalità: evidenze archeologiche and indicatori dei procedimenti di transito e diffusione nell’area della koiné bizantina», and obtained the high mark. He obtained a degree in Law with the highest qualification at the University of Macerata. Afterward, he received a degree in Literature and Heritage with the highest qualification at the University of Foggia, and achieved the Master in Archaeology and Heritage at the University of Cordoba.He is the author of many essays published in international Scientific Journals and participated in various conferences in European countries and in extra–European countries too. Main academic interests: Byzantine material production and visual culture, theory of power, and cultural heritage.

Valeria Fabretti earned her PhD in “Social Systems, Organizations, and Public Policy Analysis” from the University of Rome “Sapienza” in 2009. She has been teaching “General Sociology” at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” for several years. Since 2017, she has been a researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK–ISR), where she conducts studies on themes of pluralism and the recognition of religious minorities, with particular attention to the spatial and material dimensions of coexistence. At FBK–ISR, she coordinates the program “Spaces of Religions and Spiritualities: Places, Devices, and Practices of Encounter and Recognition in Plural Societies,” which includes several interdisciplinary research projects conducted nationwide. In collaboration with other FBK centers, she also develops research and educational initiatives aimed at fostering critical thinking and awareness among younger generations regarding the cultural, social, and ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence technologies.

Silvio Ferarri is Retired professor of Law and Religion, University of Milan and Distinguished Fellow at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento; honorary president of ICLARS (International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies); director of the research project “Atlas of Religious or Belief Minorities in the European Union Countries” (https://atlasminorityrights.eu). Visiting professor at the University of California (Berkeley, 1994 and 2001), the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (London, 1998–99), the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris, Sorbonne, 2004), the University of Leuven (2000–2012), and the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton 2014). His publications in English include Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief, Routledge 2020 (together with Marh Hill, Arif Jamal and Rossella Bottoni), Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws, Routledge, 2019 (together with R. Bottoni), Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism. A comparative overview, Springer, 2016 (together with R. Cristofori and R. Bottoni), Handbook of Law and Religion, Routledge 2015. His main fields of interest are law and religion in Europe, comparative law of religions (particularly Jewish law, Canon law and Islamic law) and the Vatican policy in the Middle East, religious minority rights. In 2012 he has been invited to deliver the Messenger Lectures at Cornell University and has received the Distinguished Service Award of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies of the J. Reuben Clark Law School (BYU, Provo, Utah).

Lucia Galvagni Ricercatrice presso la Fondazione Bruno Kessler — Centro per le Scienze Religiose. Laureata in Filosofia (Università cattolica, Milano), ha conseguito un dottorato in “Bioetica e sperimentazioni cliniche in oncologia” (Facoltà di Medicina, Università degli Studi di Genova) e un master in “Ethique, santé et institutions” (Université catholique de Lille, Francia). I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la bioetica, la filosofia della medicina e l’etica clinica, l’etica della salute e della sanità. È autrice di: Percorsi di etica clinica (EDB 2003), Bioetica e comitati etici (EDB 2005), Narrazioni cliniche. Etica e comunicazione in medicina (Carocci 2020).

Nicolò Germano (15/11/1999) is a PhD Candidate in the Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies (DREST) at the University of Genoa: his doctoral research is centered on the ethical–religious thought of Alberto Caracciolo. He is the author of the book Etica, religione e letteratura nel tempo del nichilismo. Un percorso kierkegaardiano (2022), editor of the volume Le parole che restano. Per Francesco Mora (2023), and he has published essays in national and international scientific journals focusing on moral philosophy and philosophy of religion.

Sara Hejazi is an Anthropologist and Researcher. She is an Adjunct Professor of cultural Studies at Al–Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty. She works at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento and at the Department of Philosophy and educational Sciences at the University of Turin. Her long research career has focused on the relationship between people, belief systems, identities and technologies. She has produced numerous ethnographies on various themes: contemporary monasticism, Islamic minority communities in Italy, the issue of the veil in Iran throughout history and in contemporary post–revolutionary setting, the impact of digital technologies on sexual behavior, the dematerialization of sacred objects, the revival of Tengrism in Central Asia, protest movements and civil society mobilizations in Iran after the Zan, Zendegi, Azadi movement. At the moment she is observing the construction — in public discourse and in daily practices — of the so called “Silver Age.” Her latest book Iran, women and revolts was published in 2023 by Morcelliana Scholé.

Massimo Leone is Professor of Philosophy of Communication, Cultural Semiotics, and Visual Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Turin, Italy, part–time Professor of Semiotics in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, University of Shanghai, China, associate member of Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge, Director of the Center for Religious Studies at the “Bruno Kessler Foundation”, Trento, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Caracas, Venezuela. He is a member of the European Academy. He has been visiting professor at several universities in the five continents. He has single–authored sixteen books, edited more than sixty collective volumes, and published more than six hundred articles in semiotics, religious studies, and visual studies. He is the winner of a 2018 ERC Consolidator Grant and of a 2022 ERC Proof of Concept Grant. He is the editor-in-chief of “Lexia”, the Semiotic Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication, University of Turin, Italy, co–editor–in–chief of “Semiotica” (De Gruyter), and co–editor of the book series “I Saggi di Lexia” (Aracne, Rome), “Semiotics of Religion” (Walter de Gruyter, Berlin–Boston), “Advances in Face Studies” (Routledge, London and New York), and “Belief and Advanced Technology” (Springer). 

Giada Lonati, medico, si occupa di cure palliative dal 1995. Dal 2010 è direttrice sociosanitaria di VIDAS, organizzazione non profit che da 40 anni si occupa di assistenza ai malati inguaribili a domicilio e in hospice e che nel 2019 ha inaugurato Casa Sollievo Bimbi, il primo hospice pediatrico della Lombardia. Ha uno specifico interesse per la bioetica, in particolare per le sue declinazioni nel fine vita. È autrice di L’ultima cosa bella (2017), Biotestamento (2020), Prendersi cura (2022).

Nicola Manghi is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), working at the Centre de Recherche et Documentation sur l’Océanie (CREDO) at the University of Aix–Marseille, France, and a research associate at the Anthropology Program of the Unviersity of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand. He has conducted extensive research in the Tuvalu, Fiji and Aotearoa/New Zealand on issues related to sovereignty, global warming, and politics. Parallel to his ethnographic interests, he has published several papers on Bruno Latour’s theoretical contribution to political ecology, and as edited and translated a collection of Latour’s essays, Essere di questa terra. Guerra e pace al tempo dei conflitti ecologici (Rosenberg&Sellier, Torino, 2019).

Boris Rähme (Dr. phil. in Philosophy, Freie Universität Berlin, 2010), is a Researcher at the Center for Religious Studies of Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento (Italy) and lecturer in Logic, Philosophy of Logic and Ontology at the University of Trento. He has been researcher and lecturer at FU Berlin, Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and has held research fellowships at the Universities of Sheffield, Helsinki, and Heidelberg. His main research interests are in social epistemology, philosophy of religion and the intersection between religious studies and theories of innovation. Rähme has published numerous articles in philosophical epistemology, theories of truth, religion and new technologies.

Salvatore Rindone is Professor of Philosophy at the Studio Teologico San Paolo in Catania, at the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Sicily in Palermo and visiting professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm in Rome. In 2016 he obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm with the Thesis Pensiero della trascendenza e pensiero della temporalità. Luigi Pareyson e Gianni Vattimo interpreti di Heidegger (Studia Anselmiana, Roma 2017). He has published several essays on Vattimo’s thought and on his mentor Luigi Pareyson. He has been editor since 2017 of the Nuovo Giornale di Filosofia della Religione and he is also an associate of AIFR (Associazione Italiana Filosofia della Religione). He collaborates with several Italian journals as translator, editor and essayist. A specialist teacher on issues of contemporary philosophy and philosophy of religion, he has written on Pareyson’s and Vattimo’s thoughts. He edited with Ph. Nouzille the essay “Ermeneutica, cristianesimo, politica. Intorno a Gianni Vattimo”, Aracne, Roma 2018. Finally, the latest publication is Uscita dal nichilismo. ll cristianesimo di fronte alla tecnica (in 2021), again with some clear references to contemporary philosophy and religion.

Loreta Rocchetti, medico. Attività prevalente nella vita: medico di famiglia. Assistere le persone al loro domicilio fino alla fine della vita l’ha portata ad approfondire ambiti ed argomenti poco esplorati durante gli studi di medicina, tra cui: Etica e Filosofia della Medicina; Santé Publique, Bioéthique UCL, Bruxelles; Equipe mobile de Soins Palliatifs, Clinique de Santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. Dal 2010 volontaria presso Fondazione Hospice Trentino onlus e coordinatrice del Comitato Scientifico. Autrice di: Riserva di prognosi (2014) e Negli occhi di cura (2016).

Rebecca Sabatini is a PhD student in Religious Studies at the University of Turin and at Bruno Kessler Foundation. Her research focuses on the study of the phenomenon of the exposition of mummified catholic human remains in museums and museum–like contexts, from an historical–religious and cultural anthropological point of view.

Vincenzo Serpe, Dottore di ricerca in Filosofia, è docente di Filosofia morale e politica presso l’Istituto Teologico Salernitano e di antropologia filosofica presso l’Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose in Salerno. Già docente di dottrina sociale della Chiesa presso l’Università degli Studi di Salerno nel Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali Managment e Innovation Systems (DISAMIS), attualmente è cultore della materia di Storia e Istituzioni delle Dottrine politiche e Filosofia Sociale presso il Dipartimento di Studi Politici e Sociali dell’Università degli Studi di Salerno. Tra le pubblicazioni si ricorda la monografia Banalità del male? Tommaso d’Aquino e Hannah Arendt a confronto e diversi articoli sul confronto tra il pensiero filosofico–politico di Tommaso e il contesto contemporaneo.

Stefan Silber is a Roman Catholic Theologian and teaches Systematic Theology at the University of Vechta (Germany). He specializes in Postcolonial and Liberation Theologies and has taught as a visiting professor at Catholic Universities in El Salvador, Bolivia, and Ecuador. He has published books in German and Spanish; recently, an Italian translation of his book Una chiesa che esce da se stessa has been published in Bologna.

Debora Tonelli is Permanent Researcher at FBK–ISR, Georgetown University Representative in Rome, Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at the same University. She is also Invited Lecturer at Pontifical Athenaeum S. Anselmo and at Gregoriana University (Rome). Her current research and teaching activities are focused on the interaction between those two main fields, specifically inside the wider context of interreligious dialogue, with a key focus on the relationship between violence and biblical religions.

Roberto Toniatti has been Professor Emeritus of comparative constitutional law, at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento since 2021, where he has taught since 1988. He has been the elected Dean of the Faculty of Law (1994–2000; 2003–2009) and member of the Academic Senate, University of Trento. A Fulbright Scholar at the University of Virginia, USA in Charlottesville (1988), he has been visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck (2018–2023, where he still lectures), at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (2012–2016), at the Vermont Law School, USA, (2020), at the University of Hong Kong (2017), at the National University of Singapore (2015), at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania (2014), at Haifa University (2010), at Universidad del País Vasco, Spain (1994, 1997, 2009), at Kunmin University, China (2007), at Bahçesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey (2006). He has lectured and participated in Conferences in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, China, Colombia, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Turkey, UK, USA (1988–2024). He has been scientific director of several Research Programmes, the latest a project named Jurisdiction and Pluralisms” (JPs) and of the Summer School “Comparing Constitutional Adjudication” (CoCoA). He is the author, editor and co–editor of several books and the author of many essays and chapters in collective volumes. Mention is to be given, among publications in English, to (with J. Woelk), Regional Autonomy, Cultural Diversity and Differentiated Territorial Government. The Case of Tibet – Chinese and Comparative Perspectives, Routledge, 2017; to (with D. Strazzari ed.), Legal Pluralism in Europe and the Ordre Public Exception: Normative and Judicial Perspectives, The Pluralist Papers (e–book, 2016); to (with C. Piciocchi and D. Strazzari, ed.s), State and Religion: Agreements, Conventions and Statutes", Napoli, 2021; to The Principle of Reflective Judiciary in Divided Societies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Western Balkans, in “Rivista di Diritti Comparati”, 2–2023; to “Legal Monism and the Challenges of Legal Pluralism(s)”, in M. Accetto, K. Škrubej, J. H.H. Weiler (eds.), Law and Revolution. Past Experiences, Future Challenges, Routledge, Abingdon, 2024, 262; to “Minorities and Protected Minorities: Constitutional Models Compared”, in T. Bonazzi and M. Dunne (eds.), Citizenship and Rights in Multicultural Societies, Londra, 1996; to Multicultural Citizenship and Education, in “European Journal for Education Law and Policy”, 2001; to “Foreword” to A. Lollini, Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in South Africa, Berghahn Books, New York and Oxford, 2010; to “Sovereignty Lost, Constitutional Identity Regained”, in A. Saiz Arnaiz, C. Alcoberro Llivina (eds.), National Constitutional Identity and European Integration, Intersentia, Mortsel, 2013; to R. Toniatti, Comparing Constitutions in the Global Era: Opportunities, Purposes, Challenges, 2019 “Casad Comparative Law Lecture”, in Kansas Law Review, 2019; to “President Trump’s Political Agenda Vis–à.Vis the Supreme Court”, in G. F. Ferrari (ed.), The American Presidency Under Trump,. The First Two Years, Eleven, The Hague, 2020; to Non–Deferential Judicial Checks and Balances and Presidential Policies, in DPCE online, 2021.

Kyriaki Topidi, Dr. habil., is a Senior Researcher and Head of the research Cluster on Culture & Diversity at the European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany). She is the author and editor of several monographs, volumes and scientific articles. She is the co–editor of the book series Routledge Advances in Minority Studies.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2330-662X

Ilaria Valenzi is Researcher in law and religion at Milan University and adjunct professor at Sapienza University of Rome, where she works on religious factors determining the role of politics and law in global spaces. Since 2019 she is a researcher at the FBK-ISR. Her research focuses on post–secular freedom of religion or belief and religious minorities.

Mattia Zeba is a Post–Doc–Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research (Bolzano/Bozen). He holds a PhD in International Studies (University of Trento), MAs in Modern Languages (University of Padova) and International Relations (University of Trento), jointly with a Graduate Diploma in Transnational Governance (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa). His research interests include multilingualism and linguistic diversity, language rights and policies, minority language education, sub–national constitutionalism, new minorities and heritage languages, contested languages, language variation and hybrid language practices.