Maria Chiara Giorda
Biographic Data
| ID | 90812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Chiara Giorda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Giorda |
| SIGNATURE | GIORDA M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Roma Tre University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6645-772X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sharing Space between Secular and Religious
This article analyzes the St. Dumitru Romanian Orthodox Church in New York City’s Upper West Side—a shared sacred place that blends religious, domestic, and community functions within a secular urban fabric. We explore how sacralization processes transform a former residential building into a place of worship, a home for its parish priest, and a spiritual home for its congregation. The study maps the religious geography of the neighborhood, empha…
Without a Family
The Orthodox Church has a longstanding tradition of allowing married priests and deacons, while bishops are typically chosen from among monks. This article presents the historic process of monasticisation of the episcopal rank up to the Council in Trullo (ad 691-692). Over the centuries, it became standard for bishops to be celibate and free from family commitments, with a strong preference for monks. The Council in Trullo regulated the family st…
Romanian Orthodox Heritage in Italy
This research paper explores Romanian Orthodox religious places as vital centers for producing and promoting national identity as well as cultural and religious heritage in Italy. Through the application of a spatial perspective, it addresses the complexities of heritage recognition, questioning what constitutes "heritage" for the religious minorities in Italy and highlighting the inadequacies of the current legal frameworks in this context. The …
The Spatial Dimension of Interreligious Dialogue
Urban space is the social field in which religious diversity in contemporary Italy becomes most evident and where religious groups compete for visibility, recognition, and places of worship. The sites of so-called minorities can be observed as indicators of a plural religious geography. Peaceful and conflictual dynamics are both expressed precisely through external recognition, which may be horizontal-religious and social-when between peers or ve…
Religious Presences and Places in the City of Rome in the Contemporary Age
Recent research has redefined the relationship between religion and urban spaces, recognizing religion as a key factor in shaping both the material and immaterial fabric of cities. Moving beyond the notion of secularization, recent studies reveal how diverse religious traditions actively contribute to urban identity, cultural heritage, and public life. This article presents findings from the CHANGES survey conducted in Rome, which gathered data o…
They are all here to see and touch”
The sanctuary of St Anthony of Padua (Kisha e Shna Ndout) in Laç, northern Albania, is one of the most visited religious places in Albania. The small church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented by Catholics, Muslims and Christian Orthodox. Throughout the year, pilgrims from across the country, but also from Kosovo, visit the sanctuary. On the 12th and 13th of June of each year, an official p…
Marco Guglielmi, The Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in Italy. Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western European Country
imports), sont
From Secular Spaces to Religious Places
The purpose of this article is to study the Romanian Orthodox place of worship of Lunghezza in Rome, utilizing the expression 'shared religious place' and thus referring to the shift from secular to religious and asserting that it is now a camouflaged religious place. Using GIS mapping and Digital Humanities methods and tools, the paper analyses the geographical presence of Orthodox Romanians in the Metropolitan City of Rome territory and the arc…
Religious Materiality and Virtual Sainthood
The interdisciplinary perspective, between history and anthropology, of our contribution has as its subject the pilgrimage at Kisha e Shna Ndout (Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua) in Laç, northern Albania, which is one of the most visited religious sites in southeastern Europe. The church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented throughout the year by thousands of pilgrims. On the 12th and 13th…
The Puzzle of Italian Religious Freedoms
Religious freedom" has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on different factors, including different understandings of the role of religion in society. In this paper, we contribute to the analysis of the intersections between the institutional definitions and the social perceptions by comparatively analyzing the practices and discourses on religious freedom in the fields of healthcare and school canteens through reg…
Seppur informali
A partire dall'"informalita" e dall'"invisibilita" urbana che connotano la condizione di alcuni gruppi religiosi in Italia, l'articolo presenta una possibile soluzione architettonica e urbanistica: la conversione di un cinema romano nel primo centro culturale Sikh in Italia attraverso l'adozione di un approccio interdisciplinare basato sui metodi della geografia delle religioni
Introduction
This special issue comes from a panel we organized at the conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion (easr) held in Bern in June 2018.1 The panel, titled "Space, Religion, and the Internet," aimed at exploring the relationship between religion and new media by considering the spatial turn in Religious Studies. We launched an open call for the panel and, while it was not restricted to a specific religion, it mostly attracted …
Disciplining the Slaves of God
The chapter analyses the presence of children in Byzantine Egyptian monasteries. It attempts to reconcile the seeming tension between the constant prohibition of and evidence for the ongoing presence of children in monasteries for an extended period. Ancient monastic and canonical norms provide vital information on this topic: most of them forbade any children in monasteries, even for a short period (e.g. to attend liturgies). However, some monas…
Religious diversity and inter-faith competition
Religions play a significant role in Italian cities and, more generally, in the social, cultural and political lives of Italians. Since 1948, the Italian state has formally been secular, and it guarantees religious freedoms beyond Christianity. However, the reality is much more complex, as the hegemonic position of Catholicism is still evident, and religious minorities often deal with various forms of marginalization, stigmatization and lack of r…
Beyond Gender
This paper focuses on the contemporary controversy in the Orthodox Church regarding the non-existence of the monasteries, where monks and nuns cohabit (so-called "double-monasteries"), which were prohibited by the Byzantine legislation and the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea 787). The article attempts to demonstrate that, in spite of the centuries-old prohibition, the Orthodox Monastery of St. John the Baptist is an exceptional contemporary cas…
Initiatives interreligieuses et gouvernance locale
Many European local governments are seeking out ways to encourage interreligious initiatives. This article focuses on the cases of Barcelona and Turin. Both cities are pioneering new forms of governance of the religious field in Southern Europe, while also being a source of inspiration for other cities. The article traces the genealogy of the institutional collaboration between interreligious actors and local governments, and develops a typology …
Religion et politique, un aller-retour entre appartenance et croyance. Gauche radicale et un groupe de « femmes monastiques » en Italie
This article analyses the double conversion of a group of Italian women, first to communism then to Catholicism. Offspring of the bourgeois catholic families of Turin, these women became extreme-left activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Today they are active members in traditional catholic milieus: more specifically, they live close to a catholic monastery, carrying out services for the male community. The specific aim of the contribution is to unde…
Religious super-diversity and spatial strategies in two European cities
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and super-diverse. The authors question that the concept of post-secular cities usefully sums up the complex processes currently characterizing religion in contemporary European cities. They propose that different historical memories are layered upon one another and they demonstrate how religious diversity and cities mutually shape one another. Based on empirical illustrations…
Familles du « monde », familles monastiques
Le rapport entre économie et religion : tel est l'objet de cet essai, qui vise plus précisément à tenter de relire en termes économiques le rapport entre monachisme et famille, entendus tous deux comme agents et ensemble d'habitus ou comme des sous-champs du champ religieux (et économique) égyptien, afin de réfléchir sur la façon dont ces catégories empruntées à la sociologie de Bourdieu peuvent nous aider à comprendre les dynamiques spirituelles…
Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt, José Casanova, Topographies of Faith. Religion in Urban Spaces
Religious super-diversity and spatial strategies in two European cities
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and super-diverse. The authors question that the concept of post-secular cities usefully sums up the complex processes currently characterizing religion in contemporary European cities. They propose that different historical memories are layered upon one another and they demonstrate how religious diversity and cities mutually shape one another. Based on empirical illustrations…
The Puzzle of Italian Religious Freedoms
Religious freedom" has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on different factors, including different understandings of the role of religion in society. In this paper, we contribute to the analysis of the intersections between the institutional definitions and the social perceptions by comparatively analyzing the practices and discourses on religious freedom in the fields of healthcare and school canteens through reg…
Religious diversity and inter-faith competition
Religions play a significant role in Italian cities and, more generally, in the social, cultural and political lives of Italians. Since 1948, the Italian state has formally been secular, and it guarantees religious freedoms beyond Christianity. However, the reality is much more complex, as the hegemonic position of Catholicism is still evident, and religious minorities often deal with various forms of marginalization, stigmatization and lack of r…
From Secular Spaces to Religious Places
The purpose of this article is to study the Romanian Orthodox place of worship of Lunghezza in Rome, utilizing the expression 'shared religious place' and thus referring to the shift from secular to religious and asserting that it is now a camouflaged religious place. Using GIS mapping and Digital Humanities methods and tools, the paper analyses the geographical presence of Orthodox Romanians in the Metropolitan City of Rome territory and the arc…
Religious Materiality and Virtual Sainthood
The interdisciplinary perspective, between history and anthropology, of our contribution has as its subject the pilgrimage at Kisha e Shna Ndout (Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua) in Laç, northern Albania, which is one of the most visited religious sites in southeastern Europe. The church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented throughout the year by thousands of pilgrims. On the 12th and 13th…
Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt, José Casanova, Topographies of Faith. Religion in Urban Spaces
Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt, José Casanova, Topographies of Faith. Religion in Urban Spaces
Familles du « monde », familles monastiques
Le rapport entre économie et religion : tel est l'objet de cet essai, qui vise plus précisément à tenter de relire en termes économiques le rapport entre monachisme et famille, entendus tous deux comme agents et ensemble d'habitus ou comme des sous-champs du champ religieux (et économique) égyptien, afin de réfléchir sur la façon dont ces catégories empruntées à la sociologie de Bourdieu peuvent nous aider à comprendre les dynamiques spirituelles…
Religion et politique, un aller-retour entre appartenance et croyance. Gauche radicale et un groupe de « femmes monastiques » en Italie
This article analyses the double conversion of a group of Italian women, first to communism then to Catholicism. Offspring of the bourgeois catholic families of Turin, these women became extreme-left activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Today they are active members in traditional catholic milieus: more specifically, they live close to a catholic monastery, carrying out services for the male community. The specific aim of the contribution is to unde…
Religious super-diversity and spatial strategies in two European cities
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and super-diverse. The authors question that the concept of post-secular cities usefully sums up the complex processes currently characterizing religion in contemporary European cities. They propose that different historical memories are layered upon one another and they demonstrate how religious diversity and cities mutually shape one another. Based on empirical illustrations…
Initiatives interreligieuses et gouvernance locale
Many European local governments are seeking out ways to encourage interreligious initiatives. This article focuses on the cases of Barcelona and Turin. Both cities are pioneering new forms of governance of the religious field in Southern Europe, while also being a source of inspiration for other cities. The article traces the genealogy of the institutional collaboration between interreligious actors and local governments, and develops a typology …
Religious diversity and inter-faith competition
Religions play a significant role in Italian cities and, more generally, in the social, cultural and political lives of Italians. Since 1948, the Italian state has formally been secular, and it guarantees religious freedoms beyond Christianity. However, the reality is much more complex, as the hegemonic position of Catholicism is still evident, and religious minorities often deal with various forms of marginalization, stigmatization and lack of r…
Beyond Gender
This paper focuses on the contemporary controversy in the Orthodox Church regarding the non-existence of the monasteries, where monks and nuns cohabit (so-called "double-monasteries"), which were prohibited by the Byzantine legislation and the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicea 787). The article attempts to demonstrate that, in spite of the centuries-old prohibition, the Orthodox Monastery of St. John the Baptist is an exceptional contemporary cas…
Disciplining the Slaves of God
The chapter analyses the presence of children in Byzantine Egyptian monasteries. It attempts to reconcile the seeming tension between the constant prohibition of and evidence for the ongoing presence of children in monasteries for an extended period. Ancient monastic and canonical norms provide vital information on this topic: most of them forbade any children in monasteries, even for a short period (e.g. to attend liturgies). However, some monas…
Seppur informali
A partire dall'"informalita" e dall'"invisibilita" urbana che connotano la condizione di alcuni gruppi religiosi in Italia, l'articolo presenta una possibile soluzione architettonica e urbanistica: la conversione di un cinema romano nel primo centro culturale Sikh in Italia attraverso l'adozione di un approccio interdisciplinare basato sui metodi della geografia delle religioni
Introduction
This special issue comes from a panel we organized at the conference of the European Association for the Study of Religion (easr) held in Bern in June 2018.1 The panel, titled "Space, Religion, and the Internet," aimed at exploring the relationship between religion and new media by considering the spatial turn in Religious Studies. We launched an open call for the panel and, while it was not restricted to a specific religion, it mostly attracted …
The Puzzle of Italian Religious Freedoms
Religious freedom" has many different meanings, and its social perceptions vary depending on different factors, including different understandings of the role of religion in society. In this paper, we contribute to the analysis of the intersections between the institutional definitions and the social perceptions by comparatively analyzing the practices and discourses on religious freedom in the fields of healthcare and school canteens through reg…
Marco Guglielmi, The Romanian Orthodox Diaspora in Italy. Eastern Orthodoxy in a Western European Country
imports), sont
From Secular Spaces to Religious Places
The purpose of this article is to study the Romanian Orthodox place of worship of Lunghezza in Rome, utilizing the expression 'shared religious place' and thus referring to the shift from secular to religious and asserting that it is now a camouflaged religious place. Using GIS mapping and Digital Humanities methods and tools, the paper analyses the geographical presence of Orthodox Romanians in the Metropolitan City of Rome territory and the arc…
Religious Materiality and Virtual Sainthood
The interdisciplinary perspective, between history and anthropology, of our contribution has as its subject the pilgrimage at Kisha e Shna Ndout (Sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua) in Laç, northern Albania, which is one of the most visited religious sites in southeastern Europe. The church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented throughout the year by thousands of pilgrims. On the 12th and 13th…
They are all here to see and touch”
The sanctuary of St Anthony of Padua (Kisha e Shna Ndout) in Laç, northern Albania, is one of the most visited religious places in Albania. The small church, built there and ministered by Franciscans, is now an impressive place of worship frequented by Catholics, Muslims and Christian Orthodox. Throughout the year, pilgrims from across the country, but also from Kosovo, visit the sanctuary. On the 12th and 13th of June of each year, an official p…
Sharing Space between Secular and Religious
This article analyzes the St. Dumitru Romanian Orthodox Church in New York City’s Upper West Side—a shared sacred place that blends religious, domestic, and community functions within a secular urban fabric. We explore how sacralization processes transform a former residential building into a place of worship, a home for its parish priest, and a spiritual home for its congregation. The study maps the religious geography of the neighborhood, empha…
Without a Family
The Orthodox Church has a longstanding tradition of allowing married priests and deacons, while bishops are typically chosen from among monks. This article presents the historic process of monasticisation of the episcopal rank up to the Council in Trullo (ad 691-692). Over the centuries, it became standard for bishops to be celibate and free from family commitments, with a strong preference for monks. The Council in Trullo regulated the family st…
Romanian Orthodox Heritage in Italy
This research paper explores Romanian Orthodox religious places as vital centers for producing and promoting national identity as well as cultural and religious heritage in Italy. Through the application of a spatial perspective, it addresses the complexities of heritage recognition, questioning what constitutes "heritage" for the religious minorities in Italy and highlighting the inadequacies of the current legal frameworks in this context. The …
The Spatial Dimension of Interreligious Dialogue
Urban space is the social field in which religious diversity in contemporary Italy becomes most evident and where religious groups compete for visibility, recognition, and places of worship. The sites of so-called minorities can be observed as indicators of a plural religious geography. Peaceful and conflictual dynamics are both expressed precisely through external recognition, which may be horizontal-religious and social-when between peers or ve…
Religious Presences and Places in the City of Rome in the Contemporary Age
Recent research has redefined the relationship between religion and urban spaces, recognizing religion as a key factor in shaping both the material and immaterial fabric of cities. Moving beyond the notion of secularization, recent studies reveal how diverse religious traditions actively contribute to urban identity, cultural heritage, and public life. This article presents findings from the CHANGES survey conducted in Rome, which gathered data o…
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