Religious Comparison in the Age of Globalisation
Research
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- AI4CH
- Interdepartmental Research Center on Ancient Medicin (RIMA)
- Interuniversitary Center for Hungarian Studies and for Studies on Central and Eastern Europe (CISUECO)
- Center for Audiovisual Research and Processing (CREA)
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- Research Center for Languages and Their Applications (CERLA)
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- Piano Strategico di Ateneo
- Dipartimento di Eccellenza
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- Territorio, formazione, società
History
Religious Comparison in the Age of Globalisation
Coordinator: Prof. Maddalena Del Bianco
Members: Prof. Nicola Gasbarro, Dr. Pietro Ioly Zorattini
History
Religious Comparison in the Age of Globalisation
Coordinator: Prof. Maddalena Del Bianco
Members: Prof. Nicola Gasbarro, Dr. Pietro Ioly Zorattini
Globalisation has changed both the subject and the object of historical-religious comparison. On the one hand, it has undermined the universalistic subjectivity of Western modernity; on the other, it has included religion as a cultural code in other systems of meaning, which confer to it a different value of "faith" and "other" rituals.
A redefinition of methods and perspectives of the history of religions is urgently needed in order to come up with an anthropology of complex societies. This perspective will allow a comparative rethinking of the history of religions and their current problematics, especially as regards the great monotheisms and their diffusion in the modern and contemporary world, with particular attention to Hebraism and its role in the formation and development of Western society as a specific theme researched by the University of Udine.