Barbara Bertolani
Biographic Data
| ID | 388212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Bertolani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Bertolani |
| SIGNATURE | BERTOLANI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0551-0179 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Contemporary Sikh Domestic Practices in Italy
This paper explores migrants’ ways to emplace religion at home, through portable beliefs, artifacts and practices, as forms of adaptation to new social, economic and cultural contexts. The paper focuses on the case study of “domestic religious practices” among Sikh immigrant families in Northern Italy. It specifically analyzes the religious practices whereby some Sikh migrants, building on certain objects and ways to use the domestic space, sacra…
The Gurdwaras in Italy
Domestic religion and the migrant home
Migrants’ home, as a notion and a set of related experiences and locations across countries, is subject to an increasing research interest. Little of this, however, has looked at their ways to circulate and emplace religion, through portable beliefs, artifacts, and practices, as a form of home-making. Likewise, little of the debate on home and migration has explored the home, not just in terms of housing conditions or material cultures, but as an…
Two houses, one family, and the battlefield of home
At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb
‘Home’, as a special place and a set of practices that separate it from the rest, may ‘scale up’ to the public sphere, particularly among immigrant and religious minorities. Following this insight, we investigate the functional equivalences between domestic space and public, religious one, based on a case study of Sikh gurdwaras in Southall, West London. Besides their everyday function as hubs for spiritual and cultural connections with the Sikh …
Women and Sikhism in Theory and Practice
The paper reflects on the role of women in Sikhism in theory and social practice, starting from a case study in northern Italy. Although the normative discourse widely shared in mainstream Sikhism affirms the equality between man and woman and the same possibility to manifest devotion through every kind of seva (social service within gurdwaras), empirical observation in some Italian gurdwaras has shown a different picture, as there is a clear div…
Ways of making Sikhi in Italy
Young Sikh millennials live complex processes of religious identity redefinition. They depict themselves as a homogeneous community. However, they confront themselves with a strong internal pluralism regarding orthodoxy. In addition, young people raise generational issues that lead them to differentiate themselves from their parents and to distinguish Sikhism from Punjabi culture. Based on semi-structured interviews, the paper shows that living a…
Combining Civic Stratification and Transnational Approaches for Reunited Families
How migrant families are put together and the forms they take varies with the cultural \nand social origins, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the sociocultural \ncontext of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. Exploratory \nfieldwork in an Italian area led us to adopt a combined analytical framework in \nstudying such families, bearing in mind both the theory of civic stratification and the \ntransnational p…
Combining Civic Stratification and Transnational Approaches for Reunited Families
How migrant families are put together and the forms they take varies with the cultural \nand social origins, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the sociocultural \ncontext of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. Exploratory \nfieldwork in an Italian area led us to adopt a combined analytical framework in \nstudying such families, bearing in mind both the theory of civic stratification and the \ntransnational p…
At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb
‘Home’, as a special place and a set of practices that separate it from the rest, may ‘scale up’ to the public sphere, particularly among immigrant and religious minorities. Following this insight, we investigate the functional equivalences between domestic space and public, religious one, based on a case study of Sikh gurdwaras in Southall, West London. Besides their everyday function as hubs for spiritual and cultural connections with the Sikh …
Domestic religion and the migrant home
Migrants’ home, as a notion and a set of related experiences and locations across countries, is subject to an increasing research interest. Little of this, however, has looked at their ways to circulate and emplace religion, through portable beliefs, artifacts, and practices, as a form of home-making. Likewise, little of the debate on home and migration has explored the home, not just in terms of housing conditions or material cultures, but as an…
Women and Sikhism in Theory and Practice
The paper reflects on the role of women in Sikhism in theory and social practice, starting from a case study in northern Italy. Although the normative discourse widely shared in mainstream Sikhism affirms the equality between man and woman and the same possibility to manifest devotion through every kind of seva (social service within gurdwaras), empirical observation in some Italian gurdwaras has shown a different picture, as there is a clear div…
Ways of making Sikhi in Italy
Young Sikh millennials live complex processes of religious identity redefinition. They depict themselves as a homogeneous community. However, they confront themselves with a strong internal pluralism regarding orthodoxy. In addition, young people raise generational issues that lead them to differentiate themselves from their parents and to distinguish Sikhism from Punjabi culture. Based on semi-structured interviews, the paper shows that living a…
Two houses, one family, and the battlefield of home
Combining Civic Stratification and Transnational Approaches for Reunited Families
How migrant families are put together and the forms they take varies with the cultural \nand social origins, though also with the family’s migratory strategy, the sociocultural \ncontext of the host country and the latter’s chosen migration policy. Exploratory \nfieldwork in an Italian area led us to adopt a combined analytical framework in \nstudying such families, bearing in mind both the theory of civic stratification and the \ntransnational p…
Ways of making Sikhi in Italy
Young Sikh millennials live complex processes of religious identity redefinition. They depict themselves as a homogeneous community. However, they confront themselves with a strong internal pluralism regarding orthodoxy. In addition, young people raise generational issues that lead them to differentiate themselves from their parents and to distinguish Sikhism from Punjabi culture. Based on semi-structured interviews, the paper shows that living a…
Women and Sikhism in Theory and Practice
The paper reflects on the role of women in Sikhism in theory and social practice, starting from a case study in northern Italy. Although the normative discourse widely shared in mainstream Sikhism affirms the equality between man and woman and the same possibility to manifest devotion through every kind of seva (social service within gurdwaras), empirical observation in some Italian gurdwaras has shown a different picture, as there is a clear div…
Two houses, one family, and the battlefield of home
At home in the gurdwara? Religious space and the resonance with domesticity in a London suburb
‘Home’, as a special place and a set of practices that separate it from the rest, may ‘scale up’ to the public sphere, particularly among immigrant and religious minorities. Following this insight, we investigate the functional equivalences between domestic space and public, religious one, based on a case study of Sikh gurdwaras in Southall, West London. Besides their everyday function as hubs for spiritual and cultural connections with the Sikh …
Domestic religion and the migrant home
Migrants’ home, as a notion and a set of related experiences and locations across countries, is subject to an increasing research interest. Little of this, however, has looked at their ways to circulate and emplace religion, through portable beliefs, artifacts, and practices, as a form of home-making. Likewise, little of the debate on home and migration has explored the home, not just in terms of housing conditions or material cultures, but as an…
The Gurdwaras in Italy
Contemporary Sikh Domestic Practices in Italy
This paper explores migrants’ ways to emplace religion at home, through portable beliefs, artifacts and practices, as forms of adaptation to new social, economic and cultural contexts. The paper focuses on the case study of “domestic religious practices” among Sikh immigrant families in Northern Italy. It specifically analyzes the religious practices whereby some Sikh migrants, building on certain objects and ways to use the domestic space, sacra…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Immigration (3 works)