Federico Squarcini
Biographic Data
| ID | 654556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Federico Squarcini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Federico |
| FAMILY NAME | Squarcini |
| SIGNATURE | SQUARCINI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ca' Foscari University of Venice |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8485-4235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Selling tolerance by the pound
In recent times, scholars of precolonial South Asia have been solicited to take part in public debates regarding ‘ancient traditions of tolerance’. The general idea is to request them to collect and exhibit ‘evidence’ and exempla from classics and historical sources about political and practical form of tolerance, so to permit non-specialists to learn from the past and to derive behavioural patterns from ‘historical samples’. Nevertheless, althou…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
“Power of Mysticism” and “Mysticism of Power”
Religious institutions created by the extraordinary efforts of a single founder—like the one examined in this essay—try hard to assure the preservation of charisma, and to guarantee its Weberian “routinization”. But this attempt does not always succeed, and quite often what originally looks like the “power of mysticism”, allowing resolute individual and social transformations, in the gradual collective evolution of a religious field turns to crys…
In Search of Identity within the Hare Krishna Movement
In its early days, the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) was considered by its members to be an ideal micro-society that, once developed, would replace the existing “materialistic” social structure. Although this aspiration now appears “utopic” even to most of the membership, it is still useful as a model in which the accuracy of certain new social theories related to identity and knowledge can be tested: in particular, the phenomenon known as “thou…
Gesture Language as a Vehicle in the Expression of Emotion
Dans cet article, l'A. n'offre pas une vision exhaustive du theme traite. Il indique d'eventuelles pistes interpretatives qui pourront enrichir la methodologie contemporaine utilisee dans les etudes de phenomenologie religieuse. Le theme est aborde ici dans une vision from within. Apres une breve approche du sens pedagogique de l'experience religieuse, de ses implications historiques et sociales - avec une description plus particuliere du culte d…
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Gesture Language as a Vehicle in the Expression of Emotion
Dans cet article, l'A. n'offre pas une vision exhaustive du theme traite. Il indique d'eventuelles pistes interpretatives qui pourront enrichir la methodologie contemporaine utilisee dans les etudes de phenomenologie religieuse. Le theme est aborde ici dans une vision from within. Apres une breve approche du sens pedagogique de l'experience religieuse, de ses implications historiques et sociales - avec une description plus particuliere du culte d…
In Search of Identity within the Hare Krishna Movement
In its early days, the Hare Krishna movement (ISKCON) was considered by its members to be an ideal micro-society that, once developed, would replace the existing “materialistic” social structure. Although this aspiration now appears “utopic” even to most of the membership, it is still useful as a model in which the accuracy of certain new social theories related to identity and knowledge can be tested: in particular, the phenomenon known as “thou…
“Power of Mysticism” and “Mysticism of Power”
Religious institutions created by the extraordinary efforts of a single founder—like the one examined in this essay—try hard to assure the preservation of charisma, and to guarantee its Weberian “routinization”. But this attempt does not always succeed, and quite often what originally looks like the “power of mysticism”, allowing resolute individual and social transformations, in the gradual collective evolution of a religious field turns to crys…
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond
Selling tolerance by the pound
In recent times, scholars of precolonial South Asia have been solicited to take part in public debates regarding ‘ancient traditions of tolerance’. The general idea is to request them to collect and exhibit ‘evidence’ and exempla from classics and historical sources about political and practical form of tolerance, so to permit non-specialists to learn from the past and to derive behavioural patterns from ‘historical samples’. Nevertheless, althou…
Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Identity (music) (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works)