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    Call for papers - History

    Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement

    The aim of this workshop is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe. Our assumption is that the Balkans, Italy and the Iberian Peninsula form an axis of circulation which is especially significant for our understanding of the Mediterranean Sea as a comprehensive space of cultural, political and religious contact.

     

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  • Rome

    Seminar - History

    Oriental monarchisms from the Nile to the Mediterranean

    Organising monastic life in East Africa from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, 4th-16th century)

    Ce séminaire organisé par l’École française de Rome et le Pontificio Istituto Orientale depuis 2018 est dédié à l’étude du monachisme en Afrique orientale de l’Antiquité tardive à la fin du Moyen Âge. Cette deuxième session est consacrée à la question de l’organisation de la vie monastique en Égypte, Nubie et Éthiopie et privilégie les études de cas. Les rencontres mensuelles entendent mieux identifier et saisir les  normes et les modalités pratiques qui régissent l’administration, la gestion, le contrôle et l’aménagement des institutions monastiques. Une attention particulière sera accordée à la vie quotidienne des moines et des moniales en Afrique orientale dont certains aspects demeurent largement méconnus.

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  • Rome

    Call for papers - History

    The Agreements of the Holy See with States (19th-21st Centuries)

    Models and Transformations, from Confessional States to Religious Freedom

    This conference will explore the international legal agreements signed between the Holy See and individual states, which often but not always took the form of concordats and similar conventions. Its central focus will be to examine these conventions in light of diplomatic practices, as well as in relation to the political and religious dynamics of the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries, notably the principles and requirements that comprised modernity. This entails assessing the historical evolution of the typology, method, content, scope, and spaces concerned.

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  • Bologna

    Call for papers - Religion

    Litany in the Arts and Culture

    The litany derives from ancient religious rites. Throughout the ages, however, it spread across many countries and became much more than a mere form of prayer. As has been demonstrated by our recent studies on the litanic forms in European poetry it is possible to reconstruct a cultural and literary map of European regions that traces the level of their participation in and contribution to the litanic tradition. The litanic verse is marked by religious semantics, but it also bears the mark of inter-European divisions, such as those experienced between and within various denominations, countries and nations, as well as the original folk cultures. Therefore, the litany may be of interest to scholars specializing in areas such the emergence of national identities and religious minorities, the crossover between art and religion as well as between music and poetry, the history of liturgy and spiritual life, the cultural exchanges between various nations.

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  • Rome

    Study days - Religion

    L'essor de la « société civile » dans le monde musulman contemporain

    Paradoxes et convergences

    D’où vient cette intense demande de « citoyenneté » qui monte des sociétés à majorité musulmane et qui se manifeste par l’essor sans précédent d’un mouvement associatif qui s’organise par le bas et apparaît aujourd’hui bien ancré dans l’espace public ? Existe-t-il une spécificité musulmane de ce phénomène que les acteurs eux-mêmes dénomment « société civile » ? Grâce à l’histoire, notamment coloniale, on comprend mieux pourquoi ce terme exprime bien un rapport musulman spécifique au « politique » et à l’ « économique », qui se manifeste par une confrontation récurrente avec l’État et pose donc la question du pouvoir. C’est pourquoi cette approche nous mène tout droit à la question de la démocratie et nous permet de l’aborder d’une manière qui évite les démarches européocentriques ou paternalistes qui, souvent, piègent nos débats. Associations, syndicats, corporations de métier, éducation, islamic business, mode vestimentaire, rôle du statut personnel, sociabilités et individualisme, privatisation croissante de la foi, crise et éclatement de l’autorité religieuse alimentent l’émergence d’une dynamique citoyenne. État des lieux et analyses de processus qui connaissent une accélération vertigineuse.

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