Committees

Coordinator
Roberto Scalon

Roberto Francesco Scalon is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Culture at the University of Turin, Italy, where he teaches Sociology of Education. He is member of the Scientific Committee of the Interdepartmental Center of Religious Sciences at the University of Turin. He collaborates with the Ernst Troeltsch Chair at the Humboldt University of Berlin, and with the Department of Sociology by the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw.

Management committee

Carlo Genova

Ph.D. in comparative social research, is associate professor of sociology of culture at the University of Turin, where he teaches sociology of culture and sociology of lifestyles. His main theoretical and methodological interests concern lifestyles and subcultures, social analysis of space and material culture, interpretative sociology. His main fields of empirical research are youth cultures and urban space, youth political activism, youth religious participation.

Alessandro Gusman

Alessandro Gusman is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Turin. Research topics: Pentecostalism in Uganda; Religion and AIDS in Africa; Diaspora churches (especially refugees’ churches in Uganda); Religion, Sexuality and Morality; End-of-life care; Anthropology of death and dying.

Luca Ozzano

Assistant professor of political science, University of Turin, and chair of the ‘Religion and Politics’ standing group of the Italian Political Science Association (SISP). Research topics: religion and democratization (in theoretical terms and with a specific focus on western Europe and Turkey); religion and political parties; religion and international relations (with a focus on transnational religious movements); religion-related public debates (especially LGBT issues) in Italy.

http://lucaozzano.altervista.org/

Stefania Palmisano

Stefania Palmisano is Associate Professor in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Turin, Italy, where she teaches the Sociology of Religion. She is Visiting Research Fellow at Lancaster University (UK)

Roberta Ricucci

Roberta Ricucci is Associate Professor at the University of Turin (IT), where she teaches Sociology of Islam and Sociology of Inter-ethnic Relations. She is also member of the board of    several international networks on human mobility and religion. Research topics: migration and youth in the Mediterranean area, identity-building processes, societal and civic integration, religious paths and religious diversity management.

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Organizing committee

Marco Castagnetto

Marco Castagnetto Alessio is PhD Student in social research at Link Campus University in Rome and MA in Sciences of Religions. His main research topics are European contemporary paganism and nationalist politics, New Religious Movements in sociological perspective, soteriological philosophies of India (mainly advaita vedānta and mahāyāna buddhism), Western esotericism studies, traditionalist and perennialist philosophies.

Erika  Devivo

PhD Student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin. Her main research interests are: shamanism, reinvention of tradition, spiritual experience, anthropology of contemporary Saami.

Chiara Maritato

PhD in Political Science and International Relations, University of Turin.
Research topic: political ethnography, religion in the public sphere, female religious participation, Turkish secularism, women’s leadership in mosques.

Roberta Pibiri

PhD in Sociology of Religion, University of Turin.
Her main research interests are: gender and religion; sacred feminine and Goddess Spirituality; ancient and contemporary Paganism; sacred creativity and re-invention of tradition; spiritual experience, emotions and self-transformation; ritual performance; cultural and religious diversity.

Martina Vanzo

Master Degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Turin. Her main research interests are: neo-paganism, reinvention of tradition, nature and religion, eco-spirituality, spirituality and care, religion and spirituality in public sphere.

Marianna Zanetta

PhD in Anthropology of Religions and Far Eastern Studies at EPHE, Paris. Research topic: Shamanic practices, in particular in Japan. Religions and women relation, anthropology of contemporary Japan, visual anthropology.
link: Academia

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Scientific Committee

Luigi Berzano (Università di Torino)
Mario Cardano (Università di Torino)
Francesco Cavatorta (Université Laval, Montreal)
Anna Fedele (ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute)
Adriano Favole (Università di Torino)
Franco Garelli (Università di Torino)
Monica Gilli (Università di Torino)
Maria Chiara Giorda (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
Alberta Giorgi (Centro de Estudos Sociais, Coimbra / ELIAMEP)
Alessandro Gusman (Università di Torino)
Jeffrey Haynes (Metropolitan University, London)
Nicola Pannofino (Università di Torino)
Juha Pentikäinen (Università di Helsinki)
Vesa Matteo Piludu (Università di Helsinki)                                                          Maria Chiara Ruscazio (Università di Torino)
Natale Spineto (Università di Torino)
Linda Woodhead (Università di Lancaster)
Pierluigi Zoccatelli (Università di Torino)
Ilaria Zuanazzi (Università di Torino)