Università Roma Tre

In this part of the class, will be presented some disciplinary perspective on the study about religion(s); attention will be given to the theme of geography and space as connected to religions from a transdisciplinary perspective. This allows students to observe the religious stratification in a certain territory and theorize its dynamics and strategies. Religious sites are not only places of worship, they are also places where ownership, consuetude, negotiation of interests, creation of symbolic resources, share capital have been challenged. This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in cities that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.

For attending students:
1. Notes taken and readings suggested during the course (see uploaded materials)
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di Scienze della religione Morcelliana Brescia 2019
3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 oppure M. Burchardt M. Giorda Materializzare la tolleranza: il luoghi multireligiosi, Annali di Trento FBK 2019

Non-attending students have to replace point 1 with the following:
D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.

During the course tools and methodologies for observing and evaluating the interactions of cultural and religious communities with urban networks. We will read through texts and direct tracks and sources of involved subjects the characteristics of imbrication and reciprocal consequences among religious, social and political practices.

A particular focus will concern the history of muslim religious places in the urban space, their relationship with social and political/national, but also international movements in a pedagogical and historical perspective.
The main case study that will be examined is case of multi-faith places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

1. Notes from the lessons

2. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni, Roma 2017 or
M. Burchardt, M. Giorda, Materializzare la tolleranza, Annali di studi religiosi FBK 2019

3. F. Ciocca, Musulmani in Italia. Impatti urbani e sociali delle comunità islamiche, Meltemi, Roma, 2018 or M. Bombardieri, M. Giorda, S. Hejazi, Capire l’Islam, Morcelliana Brescia 2019.

Non attending students will study both the texts at point 2.