Course title 2019-2020: The apocryphal infancy gospels.

Module I: The apocryphal infancy gospels (1st-3rd century)
Traditions on the birth and childhood of Jesus are not only contained in works that have become canonical (the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke), but also, and to a much greater extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content, as from that of phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fate of texts without a status of authority. The module aims to deepen, from various perspectives of investigation (philological-critical, linguistic-literary, historical-doctrinal) some of the oldest works, such as the Nativity of Mary (Protoevangelium of James), Liber requiei, Stories of Childhood [paidiká] of the Lord Jesus.

Lesson materials (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

Course title 2019-2020: The apocryphal infancy gospels.

Module II: The apocryphal infancy gospels (from the 4th century)
The traditions on the birth and childhood of Jesus are not only contained in works that have become canonical (the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Luke), but also, and to a much greater extent, in an apocryphal literary production, interesting both from the point of view of content, as from that of phenomena of transmission that characterize it, paradigmatic of the fate of texts without a status of authority. The module aims to deepen, from various perspectives of investigation (philological-critical, linguistic-literary, historical-doctrinal) the evolution of those traditions in works that followed the Constantinian age, such as, for example, the Infancy Gospel “of the Pseudo-Matthew”.

Materials for the lessons (critical editions, translations, scientific bibliography) will be provided by the teacher.

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.

1st Module: Priest and king: priestly models from the origins of the movement of Jesus up to the time of Constantine

The hinge between the second and third centuries represents a crucial moment in which the figure of the single bishop at the head of a community (Mono-Episcopate) is affirmed everywhere in Christian ecumenism. To the bishop has been attributed, at the level of symbolic construction, prerogatives proper to the divine world or royalty (monarchical Episcopate): he is the absolute head, clearly superior to the rest of the clergy. At that time, on the other hand, there is a general adoption of priestly terminology to indicate the ministers of Christian worship, a phenomenon which criticism has attempted to explain, proposing different types of response but agreeing in pointing out how such a figure should be understood in the light of the categories of power and divine authority of the Roman political world . The course aims to investigate, analyzing sources of various nature- with ample space to iconographic ones- the possible cultural matrix from which Christian authors of the first centuries draw sap to create their priestly model; it also aims to follow its main developments up to the Constantine turning point, tracing continuity lines up to medieval times.

2nd Module: The communication of the sacred in the Church of the modern age
The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyze the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

Bibliography_
For students who attend lectures:
E.Cattaneo (ed.), I ministeri nella Chiesa antica. Testi patristici dei primi tre secoli, Milano, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1997: parte storica di introduzione ai testi.
Sources provided during the course
A short paper on a chosen topic

For students who are not able to attend lectures:
E.Cattaneo (ed.), I ministeri nella Chiesa antica. Testi patristici dei primi tre secoli, Milano, Paoline Editoriale Libri, 1997: parte storica di introduzione ai testi.

One book among the following:

G.Filoramo, (ed.), Teologie politiche. Modelli a confronto, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2005.
M. Maritano-M. Sajovic (edd.), Sacerdozio pagano e sacerdozio cristiano : atti del Convegno della Facoltà di Lettere cristiane e classiche della Pontificia Università Salesiana, Roma, 19-20 marzo 2010, Roma, Las, 2011.
Sabine G. MacCormack , Arte e cerimoniale nell'antichità Torino, Einaudi, 1995
Paul Zanker, La maschera di Socrate. La rappresentazione dell'intellettuale nell'arte antica, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
A.Brent, The Imperial Cult and the Development of Church Order. Concepts and Images of Authority in Paganism and Early Christianity before the Age of Cyprian, Leiden, Brill, 1999.
A.Faivre, Ordonner la fraternité: pouvoir de innover et retour à l’ordre dans l’église ancienne, Paris, Éditions du Cerf, 1992.
G.Schöllgen, Die Anfänge der Professionalisierung des Klerus und das Kirchliche Amt in der syrischen Didaskalie, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum 26, Münster, Aschendorff 1998.
A.Vilela, La condition collegiale des prêtres au IIIe siècle, Paris, Beauchesne, 1971.




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The communication of the sacred in the Church of the modern age

The course intends to take into consideration the historical and historiographical theme of the transmission of doctrines and religious experiences in the period of Protestant and Catholic reforms and of the confessional discipline (XVI-XVII century).
We will analyse the different sources through which the diffusion of the religious message took place (biblical texts, catechisms, preaching, religious literature, iconography, music) and the different expressions of devotion and spirituality that testify to their reception, with particular attention to the historiographical debate. on the topics covered.

Texts adopted and reference bibliography

1) Dossier of documents provided from the teacher (download from personal website).

2) PIETRO STELLA, Il libro religioso, a cura di MARIA LUPI, Roma, Viella, 2008, up to p. 197.

3) A book between:
- MICHELA CATTO, Un panopticon catechistico. L’arciconfraternita della dottrina cristiana a Roma in età moderna, Roma, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003.
- La musica dei semplici, L’altra Controriforma, a cura di STEFANIA NANNI, Roma, Viella, 2012.
- PAOLO PRODI, Arte e pietà nella Chiesa tridentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2014.
- Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere, a cura di ERMINIA ARDISSINO e ÉLISE BOILLET, Turnhout, Brepols, 2018 (collection Études renaissantes).

Attending students will be provided with other indications during the lessons.

It is recommended to those who have never supported an examination on the early modern history of Christianity to provide a manual, for example: Storia del Cristianesimo. L’età moderna, a cura di G. Filoramo e D. Menozzi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1995 or another in different language.