Stefano Sbalchiero
Biographic Data
| ID | 134031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Sbalchiero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Sbalchiero |
| SIGNATURE | SBALCHIERO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4369-1983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multiple Buddhism in a Catholic country: Measuring religious belonging and practice across traditions in Italy
The argument for adopting more comprehensive measures of religiosity, put forward by Yang and McPhail, underscores the centrality of the concept of ‘multiple’ as an entry point for analyzing contemporary religious belonging and practice. This article offers the findings from a 2023 study conducted among adherents of the Italian Buddhist Union (UBI, n = 515), testing the multiple religiosity hypothesis within the context of a predominantly Catholi…
Noise at the street level: Revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety
Street-level bureaucrats play a crucial role in translating policy statutes into services to citizens, but their discretion can have positive and negative impacts. This article examines noise–unwanted variability in decisions regarding identical cases. We conducted an experimental test with public officials managing seismic authorizations and analysed a database of all seismic audits performed between 2015 and 2020 in one Italian region (N = 17,4…
Representations of Interreligious Dialogue in Italian Newspapers: A Topic-Detection Analysis (2010-2023)
The study of the relationship between religion and newspapers embodies a well-established research field. However, relatively few studies focus on interfaith dialogue in the press. Against this backdrop, important questions about the manifestations and dynamics of interreligious dialogue in newspapers remain largely unexplored. Adopting a quali-quantitative approach and a topic-detection methodology, the research analyzes 1186 articles from four …
Beyond Disenchantment: How Science Awakens Spiritual Yearning
Scholars of secularization suggest that while the processes of disenchantment and the delegitimization of religious institutions have weakened religious belief systems, they also produced, as an unforeseen result, a renewed awakening of spiritual and existential longing. From this perspective, the search for meaning and spiritual yearning in contemporary Western societies is not simply a residual feature of human experience; rather, it emerges wi…
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work
Scientists have long been depicted as mainly rational, bereft of emotional and personal commitments, and disenchanted. Such a view assumes the practice of science as sterile and inoculated from aesthetic and spiritual experiences. This article questions such assumptions by investigating how scientists experience beauty, wonder, and awe in their work as a source of enchantment-a sense of awe and wonder that connects the human being to one or more …
Catholic Parishes and Immigrants in Italy: Insights from the Congregations Study in Three Italian Cities
As shown by sociological studies, the Catholic Church in Italy is very active in conducting advocacy and providing political representation to immigrants. It is also highly effective in carrying out services for immigrants, as well as fairly receptive to sharing places of worship with them. However, these sociological observations have been mainly conducted at the national level rather than by exploring the life of parishes through an empirical l…
Youth, Spirituality, Religion, and the Categories in Between
Spirituality among young people has garnered attention within the realm of social studies of religions and spiritualities, both globally and in Italy. In this study, we present findings derived from a survey conducted with 1384 students aged 13 to 20 who were attending a high school in Vicenza, in the Veneto region. Viewing young individuals as active participants in a transition to greater autonomy, one with religious and spiritual dimensions, o…
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)
This article explores the attributes and religious, social and political activities of local religious groups in three Italian cities across all religious traditions. This is the first application of Congregations Study methodology in Italy to analyze the social composition, structure and activities of religious communities. The research was conducted between 2020 and 2021 with a total number of 877 communities mapped in the cities of Bologna, Mi…
Topic modeling, long texts and the best number of topics. Some Problems and solutions
In‐Depth Interviews
In‐depth interviewing is a qualitative research technique that involves conducting individual interviews through a discovery‐oriented approach, which allows the interviewer to explore the respondent's point of view and perspectives on a topic. The method involves selecting a number of respondents to explore their perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes regarding a particular idea, issue, or situation. This technique relates to qualitative approache…
Institutional entrepreneurship and change in consumer protection policy in the telecommunications sector: Innovations in the text-based analysis approach
This article analyses the institutional entrepreneurship within independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) as a variable explaining policy change over time and seeks to offer new insight for the identification and analysis of structure-agency relationships. The article contributes to the institutional entrepreneurship research agenda by connecting changes in IRA consumer protection policy to changes in agency leadership (specifically, agency presiden…
Italian Scientists Abroad in Europe's Scientific Research Scenario: High skill migration as a resource for development in Italy
In recent years, the brain drain issue has gained such momentum that it has become necessary to adopt tools and methods to take a picture of a phenomenon that is, by its very nature, dynamic and changeable (Portes, ; Meyer, ; Ackers, 2005 Scott, ). This particular study focuses on clarifying the reasons why Italian scientists choose to look elsewhere for the best place to conduct their scientific research, and in what way their scientific experie…
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work
Scientists have long been depicted as mainly rational, bereft of emotional and personal commitments, and disenchanted. Such a view assumes the practice of science as sterile and inoculated from aesthetic and spiritual experiences. This article questions such assumptions by investigating how scientists experience beauty, wonder, and awe in their work as a source of enchantment-a sense of awe and wonder that connects the human being to one or more …
Italian Scientists Abroad in Europe's Scientific Research Scenario: High skill migration as a resource for development in Italy
In recent years, the brain drain issue has gained such momentum that it has become necessary to adopt tools and methods to take a picture of a phenomenon that is, by its very nature, dynamic and changeable (Portes, ; Meyer, ; Ackers, 2005 Scott, ). This particular study focuses on clarifying the reasons why Italian scientists choose to look elsewhere for the best place to conduct their scientific research, and in what way their scientific experie…
Catholic Parishes and Immigrants in Italy: Insights from the Congregations Study in Three Italian Cities
As shown by sociological studies, the Catholic Church in Italy is very active in conducting advocacy and providing political representation to immigrants. It is also highly effective in carrying out services for immigrants, as well as fairly receptive to sharing places of worship with them. However, these sociological observations have been mainly conducted at the national level rather than by exploring the life of parishes through an empirical l…
Youth, Spirituality, Religion, and the Categories in Between
Spirituality among young people has garnered attention within the realm of social studies of religions and spiritualities, both globally and in Italy. In this study, we present findings derived from a survey conducted with 1384 students aged 13 to 20 who were attending a high school in Vicenza, in the Veneto region. Viewing young individuals as active participants in a transition to greater autonomy, one with religious and spiritual dimensions, o…
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)
This article explores the attributes and religious, social and political activities of local religious groups in three Italian cities across all religious traditions. This is the first application of Congregations Study methodology in Italy to analyze the social composition, structure and activities of religious communities. The research was conducted between 2020 and 2021 with a total number of 877 communities mapped in the cities of Bologna, Mi…
Institutional entrepreneurship and change in consumer protection policy in the telecommunications sector: Innovations in the text-based analysis approach
This article analyses the institutional entrepreneurship within independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) as a variable explaining policy change over time and seeks to offer new insight for the identification and analysis of structure-agency relationships. The article contributes to the institutional entrepreneurship research agenda by connecting changes in IRA consumer protection policy to changes in agency leadership (specifically, agency presiden…
Institutional entrepreneurship and change in consumer protection policy in the telecommunications sector: Innovations in the text-based analysis approach
This article analyses the institutional entrepreneurship within independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) as a variable explaining policy change over time and seeks to offer new insight for the identification and analysis of structure-agency relationships. The article contributes to the institutional entrepreneurship research agenda by connecting changes in IRA consumer protection policy to changes in agency leadership (specifically, agency presiden…
Italian Scientists Abroad in Europe's Scientific Research Scenario: High skill migration as a resource for development in Italy
In recent years, the brain drain issue has gained such momentum that it has become necessary to adopt tools and methods to take a picture of a phenomenon that is, by its very nature, dynamic and changeable (Portes, ; Meyer, ; Ackers, 2005 Scott, ). This particular study focuses on clarifying the reasons why Italian scientists choose to look elsewhere for the best place to conduct their scientific research, and in what way their scientific experie…
In‐Depth Interviews
In‐depth interviewing is a qualitative research technique that involves conducting individual interviews through a discovery‐oriented approach, which allows the interviewer to explore the respondent's point of view and perspectives on a topic. The method involves selecting a number of respondents to explore their perceptions, behaviors, and attitudes regarding a particular idea, issue, or situation. This technique relates to qualitative approache…
Topic modeling, long texts and the best number of topics. Some Problems and solutions
Attributes and Activities of Religious Communities in Italy: First Results from a City Congregations Study (CCS)
This article explores the attributes and religious, social and political activities of local religious groups in three Italian cities across all religious traditions. This is the first application of Congregations Study methodology in Italy to analyze the social composition, structure and activities of religious communities. The research was conducted between 2020 and 2021 with a total number of 877 communities mapped in the cities of Bologna, Mi…
Catholic Parishes and Immigrants in Italy: Insights from the Congregations Study in Three Italian Cities
As shown by sociological studies, the Catholic Church in Italy is very active in conducting advocacy and providing political representation to immigrants. It is also highly effective in carrying out services for immigrants, as well as fairly receptive to sharing places of worship with them. However, these sociological observations have been mainly conducted at the national level rather than by exploring the life of parishes through an empirical l…
Youth, Spirituality, Religion, and the Categories in Between
Spirituality among young people has garnered attention within the realm of social studies of religions and spiritualities, both globally and in Italy. In this study, we present findings derived from a survey conducted with 1384 students aged 13 to 20 who were attending a high school in Vicenza, in the Veneto region. Viewing young individuals as active participants in a transition to greater autonomy, one with religious and spiritual dimensions, o…
Multiple Buddhism in a Catholic country: Measuring religious belonging and practice across traditions in Italy
The argument for adopting more comprehensive measures of religiosity, put forward by Yang and McPhail, underscores the centrality of the concept of ‘multiple’ as an entry point for analyzing contemporary religious belonging and practice. This article offers the findings from a 2023 study conducted among adherents of the Italian Buddhist Union (UBI, n = 515), testing the multiple religiosity hypothesis within the context of a predominantly Catholi…
Noise at the street level: Revealing unwanted variability in seismic safety
Street-level bureaucrats play a crucial role in translating policy statutes into services to citizens, but their discretion can have positive and negative impacts. This article examines noise–unwanted variability in decisions regarding identical cases. We conducted an experimental test with public officials managing seismic authorizations and analysed a database of all seismic audits performed between 2015 and 2020 in one Italian region (N = 17,4…
Representations of Interreligious Dialogue in Italian Newspapers: A Topic-Detection Analysis (2010-2023)
The study of the relationship between religion and newspapers embodies a well-established research field. However, relatively few studies focus on interfaith dialogue in the press. Against this backdrop, important questions about the manifestations and dynamics of interreligious dialogue in newspapers remain largely unexplored. Adopting a quali-quantitative approach and a topic-detection methodology, the research analyzes 1186 articles from four …
Beyond Disenchantment: How Science Awakens Spiritual Yearning
Scholars of secularization suggest that while the processes of disenchantment and the delegitimization of religious institutions have weakened religious belief systems, they also produced, as an unforeseen result, a renewed awakening of spiritual and existential longing. From this perspective, the search for meaning and spiritual yearning in contemporary Western societies is not simply a residual feature of human experience; rather, it emerges wi…
The Enchantment of Science: Aesthetics and Spirituality in Scientific Work
Scientists have long been depicted as mainly rational, bereft of emotional and personal commitments, and disenchanted. Such a view assumes the practice of science as sterile and inoculated from aesthetic and spiritual experiences. This article questions such assumptions by investigating how scientists experience beauty, wonder, and awe in their work as a source of enchantment-a sense of awe and wonder that connects the human being to one or more …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works)