Valerio Severino
Biographic Data
| ID | 5581409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valerio Severino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valerio |
| FAMILY NAME | Severino |
| SIGNATURE | SEVERINO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6304-4823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Some Kind of Liberating Effect
In The Buzz, our editorial team discusses hot topics in the academic study of religion. The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is pleased to have screened scholar and director Valerio Severino’s Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a 2023 documentary on the academic study of religion as it has developed in Central Europe. Bulletin Editor Richard Newton had the privilege of speaking with Severino about the film as well as the craft and historiography b…
Screenwriting Applied to the Academic Study of Religion: Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a Documentary on Central and Eastern Europe
Some Kind of Liberating Effect is a documentary dedicated to research freedom in the academic study of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. This essay examines the techniques used to develop a script and a screenplay. It will show how the documentary integrates screenwriting with the question of freedom of research in this academic field and region. First, the essay presents the raw footage filmed between 2022 and 2023, then the screenwriting …
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview
The present essay aims at exploring the issue of the freedom of research in the Academic Study of Religion. This essay brings together questions, arguments, and narratives in the framework of which the issue has been addressed and expressed. By adopting the approach of the ‘discursive research’, I seek to trace the production of the meaning of ‘freedom’ that is legitimated and shared in the Academic Study of Religion. I shall give a breakdown of …
Reconfiguring Nationalism: The Roll Call of the Fallen Soldiers (1800–2001)
Devastating tragedies, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the massacre during the Polish protests of 1970, are still commemorated with a roll call of the victims’ names, which is publicly pronounced. As a matter of civil or political religion, this ritual is studied by political scientists and sociologists and restricted to a specific national context. For the first time, a comparative method of history of religions is applied in order to retr…
The Irreligiousness of Fascism
This essay aims to reexamine the debate on the impact of Fascism on religious studies, by reconstructing what Raffaele Pettazzoni, one of the founding fathers of this field of research in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, meant by “religion of the state.” His research on the origin of the religious state in Iranian history and in the Greek polytheistic prototype of the polis offers a key to the interpretation of his further analys…
For a secular return to the sacred: Raffaele Pettazzoni's last statement on the name of the science of religions
In 1959, the president of the International Association for the History of Religions, Raffaele Pettazzoni, wrote the last notes of his life. Among these documents, there is a group of unpublished remarks: an attempt to outline the possible task of a unified study of religion, bridging the two dimensions – historical and phenomenological – as two facets of a single and general science of religions named ‘sacrology’. Pettazzoni had this new name in…
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For a secular return to the sacred: Raffaele Pettazzoni's last statement on the name of the science of religions
In 1959, the president of the International Association for the History of Religions, Raffaele Pettazzoni, wrote the last notes of his life. Among these documents, there is a group of unpublished remarks: an attempt to outline the possible task of a unified study of religion, bridging the two dimensions – historical and phenomenological – as two facets of a single and general science of religions named ‘sacrology’. Pettazzoni had this new name in…
The Irreligiousness of Fascism
This essay aims to reexamine the debate on the impact of Fascism on religious studies, by reconstructing what Raffaele Pettazzoni, one of the founding fathers of this field of research in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, meant by “religion of the state.” His research on the origin of the religious state in Iranian history and in the Greek polytheistic prototype of the polis offers a key to the interpretation of his further analys…
Reconfiguring Nationalism: The Roll Call of the Fallen Soldiers (1800–2001)
Devastating tragedies, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the massacre during the Polish protests of 1970, are still commemorated with a roll call of the victims’ names, which is publicly pronounced. As a matter of civil or political religion, this ritual is studied by political scientists and sociologists and restricted to a specific national context. For the first time, a comparative method of history of religions is applied in order to retr…
Discourses on Research Freedom in the Academic Study of Religion. An Overview
The present essay aims at exploring the issue of the freedom of research in the Academic Study of Religion. This essay brings together questions, arguments, and narratives in the framework of which the issue has been addressed and expressed. By adopting the approach of the ‘discursive research’, I seek to trace the production of the meaning of ‘freedom’ that is legitimated and shared in the Academic Study of Religion. I shall give a breakdown of …
Some Kind of Liberating Effect
In The Buzz, our editorial team discusses hot topics in the academic study of religion. The Bulletin for the Study of Religion is pleased to have screened scholar and director Valerio Severino’s Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a 2023 documentary on the academic study of religion as it has developed in Central Europe. Bulletin Editor Richard Newton had the privilege of speaking with Severino about the film as well as the craft and historiography b…
Screenwriting Applied to the Academic Study of Religion: Some Kind of Liberating Effect, a Documentary on Central and Eastern Europe
Some Kind of Liberating Effect is a documentary dedicated to research freedom in the academic study of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. This essay examines the techniques used to develop a script and a screenplay. It will show how the documentary integrates screenwriting with the question of freedom of research in this academic field and region. First, the essay presents the raw footage filmed between 2022 and 2023, then the screenwriting …
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)