Università Roma Tre

This course aims to offer a deep knowledge e about the history of some subjects and approaches about religion and in particular about authors, works and approaches on the study of the relationship between religion and space (form the geography of religion to the geography of religions)

We will discuss competences about theories, concepts, terminology and methodologies in the study of religions places and the localization of the sacred in the space, through materiality and relations of planning

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge of religious space/site, but also with results of some empirical researches about religious sites in spaces that are increasingly heterogeneous because of human migration and diaspora phenomena.
The main case study that will be examined is case of shared religious places, in urban and extra-urban spaces.

Attending students:

1. course notes, materials and handouts
2. G. Filoramo, M. Giorda, N. Spineto, Manuale di scienze della religione, Morcelliana, Brescia 2019.

3. C. Russo, A. Saggioro, Roma città plurale, Bulzoni 2018 Oppure
Geertz Armin W., Approcci cognitivi ed evoluzionistici alla religione Patron 2020 Oppure
M.Giorda, M. Burchardt, Materializzare la tolleranza: luoghi multireligiosi tra conflitto e adattamento. “Annali di Studi Religiosi” 20, 2019 (open access - on line).
G. Lapis, Dopo le “religioni mondiali”, Morcelliana 2022

Non-attending students will replace item 1 with a book of their choice from among

D. Albera, M. Couroucli, I luoghi sacri comuni ai monoteismi. Tra cristianesimo, ebraismo e islam. Brescia, Morcelliana, 2013.
G. Filoramo, Che cosa è la religione, Einaudi, Torino 2004.