Isacco Turina
Biographic Data
| ID | 654647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isacco Turina |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isacco |
| FAMILY NAME | Turina |
| SIGNATURE | TURINA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6438-5961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Progressive Catholics in Brazil and the Struggle for an Ecological Conversion
Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2023, this article investigates the ecological commitment of progressive Catholics in Brazil. After retracing the historical environmental record of the Brazilian Church, it focuses on organizational and ideological aspects of Catholic environmentalism today. Subsequently, it deals with the personal profiles of activists and the challenges they face in the context of serious threats directed against env…
The Guardians’ Guards: Catholic Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato si’ has been hailed as a historic milestone in the greening of the Catholic Church. However, little empirical research has explored the implementation of the pope’s ambitious environmental program. This sociological study examines the progress and limits of Catholic ecological commitment in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2023 in the state of Amazonas, the article aims to …
Echoes of Hesiod’s Works and Days in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
On a close reading, the parallels between Hesiod’s "Works and Days" and Eliot’s "The Waste Land" seem abundant enough to warrant comprehensive treatment. In this paper I discuss a range of textual and thematic coincidences between them. Indeed, besides any recognizable textual, mythological and thematic convergence, I would suggest that Hesiod’s epic gave Eliot a mirror with which to compare ancient and modern civilization. Whilst the latter is i…
Tarde's ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke
Sociological studies on imitation and crowds usually point to the late nineteenth-century French jurist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde as their forerunner. This article argues that a lively debate on those issues already existed in Europe in the late seventeenth century. A review of works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Locke will show how they commented upon the dangerous influence of charismatic leaders over excitable mobs or the ordinary oc…
Laudato si: Continuité Et Changement Dans Le Magistère Catholique Sur L'écologie, l'Économie Et La Vie Humaine
Tout en se situant dans le sillon du magistère de Paul VI, Jean-Paul II et Benoît XVI sur l'écologie, l'encyclique Laudato si' a soulevé, à sa publication en juin 2015, une marée de commentaires et de réactions qui, aux yeux de l'opinion publique internationale, a fait entrer pour la première fois l'Église catholique dans les grands débats sur la crise de l'environnement. En fait Laudato si' se distingue par quelques innovations marquantes, qui o…
An Interpretive Account of Individual, Nonviolent Radicalization
While recent research has focused on radicalization mainly in relation to religiously inspired terrorism, we suggest that radicalization is not intrinsically tied to political violence or group recruitment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Italy, we analyze two case studies—one religious and one secular—of individual, nonviolent radicalization bearing on personal choices of lifestyle and ethics. We rely on 33 interviews with Catholic …
Pride and Burden: The Quest for Consistency in the Anti-Speciesist Movement
This article draws on 22 interviews with Italian anti-speciesists to develop a sociological account of the quest for ethical consistency in the animal rights movement. The essay analyzes three relevant consequences of the search for consistency—identity extension, social segregation, and self-transformation—and discusses their impact on the activists’ lives. Consistency appears as both a source of self-gratification and a burden. On the one hand,…
Centralized globalization: The Holy See and human mobility since World War II
Through an examination of the official teaching of the Church I show how the increased mobility of large masses of Catholics since World War II has led to continuing efforts by the Holy See to follow and, to a certain extent, to control these fluxes of people. In turn, global human mobility has had an influence on institutional structures and on the self-understanding of the Church. While this evolution has contributed to the globalization of the…
Vatican biopolitics
The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on a new role, that of manager of populations of believers; and second, that a number of essential functions for the Church as an organization, such as the recruitment of members and of clergy, the maint…
L'Église catholique et la cause de l'environnement
Depuis les années 1970, le magistère des papes a pris en compte la critique écologique et en a proposé une version compatible avec la tradition catholique. À ces déclarations, le Vatican n'a guère donné suite par un engagement efficace et cohérent. En Amérique latine cependant, où l'écologie et la cause des pauvres sont étroitement liées, la théologie de la libération et les « communautés de base » ont sérieusement abordé les problèmes environnem…
Consecrated Virgins in Italy: A Case Study in the Renovation of Catholic Religious Life
Catholic religious life has undergone major changes since the Second Vatican Council. These have to do with the relationship between the individual and the institution and the place of consecrated people in contemporary society, among other issues. This article focuses on the consecration of virgins. It is a very ancient rite, re-established by the Church in 1970. The women make a public promise of perpetual virginity. They do not belong to any r…
Foi, raison et nature selon le magistère romain (1846-1978)
La confrontation entre l'autorité catholique et le monde moderne a laissé des traces profondes dans le magistère, qui est encore aujourd'hui l'un des principaux moyens de construction d'une identité catholique et de mobilisation des croyants. À partir de la moitié du xixe siècle, les papes ont notamment construit un discours sur la cohérence entre foi et raison qui se pose ouvertement en conflit avec la position des Lumières, qui visait leur sépa…
Éthique et engagement dans un groupe antispéciste
Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête ethnographique sur une association italienne qui lutte pour les droits des animaux, en se focalisant sur les aspects éthiques de cette forme d'engagement. Par contraste avec l'antispécisme des philosophes moraux, je me propose de définir la version élaborée par ce groupe comme « antispécisme anti-humaniste », vu que, au sein de ce collectif, la défense des animaux va de pair avec un mépris pour les…
Secularization as a Property of Action
English Assuming that religion is socially relevant to the extent that it has influence on action, the article invites reconsideration of secularization not as a long-term historical process but as a property of action: any action, or a whole domain of action (economy, warfare, art, nutrition, sex, etc.), is therefore secularized if in carrying it out people are not influenced by religious doctrines or feelings about the way it should be done, an…
Vers un catholicisme « exemplaire
Depuis le Concile Vatican II on voit renaître deux anciennes consécrations, celles des ermites et des vierges, qui relèvent d'une même spiritualité du témoignage. Après avoir présenté dans le détail le cas italien, et avoir décrit les principes du témoignage catholique, on fait l'hypothèse que ces formes d'engagement sont des phénomènes de religiosité exemplaire greffés sur la tradition éthique du catholicisme (on emprunte la dichotomie éthique -…
L'Église catholique et la cause de l'environnement
Depuis les années 1970, le magistère des papes a pris en compte la critique écologique et en a proposé une version compatible avec la tradition catholique. À ces déclarations, le Vatican n'a guère donné suite par un engagement efficace et cohérent. En Amérique latine cependant, où l'écologie et la cause des pauvres sont étroitement liées, la théologie de la libération et les « communautés de base » ont sérieusement abordé les problèmes environnem…
Éthique et engagement dans un groupe antispéciste
Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête ethnographique sur une association italienne qui lutte pour les droits des animaux, en se focalisant sur les aspects éthiques de cette forme d'engagement. Par contraste avec l'antispécisme des philosophes moraux, je me propose de définir la version élaborée par ce groupe comme « antispécisme anti-humaniste », vu que, au sein de ce collectif, la défense des animaux va de pair avec un mépris pour les…
Pride and Burden: The Quest for Consistency in the Anti-Speciesist Movement
This article draws on 22 interviews with Italian anti-speciesists to develop a sociological account of the quest for ethical consistency in the animal rights movement. The essay analyzes three relevant consequences of the search for consistency—identity extension, social segregation, and self-transformation—and discusses their impact on the activists’ lives. Consistency appears as both a source of self-gratification and a burden. On the one hand,…
Centralized globalization: The Holy See and human mobility since World War II
Through an examination of the official teaching of the Church I show how the increased mobility of large masses of Catholics since World War II has led to continuing efforts by the Holy See to follow and, to a certain extent, to control these fluxes of people. In turn, global human mobility has had an influence on institutional structures and on the self-understanding of the Church. While this evolution has contributed to the globalization of the…
Vers un catholicisme « exemplaire
Depuis le Concile Vatican II on voit renaître deux anciennes consécrations, celles des ermites et des vierges, qui relèvent d'une même spiritualité du témoignage. Après avoir présenté dans le détail le cas italien, et avoir décrit les principes du témoignage catholique, on fait l'hypothèse que ces formes d'engagement sont des phénomènes de religiosité exemplaire greffés sur la tradition éthique du catholicisme (on emprunte la dichotomie éthique -…
Tarde's ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke
Sociological studies on imitation and crowds usually point to the late nineteenth-century French jurist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde as their forerunner. This article argues that a lively debate on those issues already existed in Europe in the late seventeenth century. A review of works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Locke will show how they commented upon the dangerous influence of charismatic leaders over excitable mobs or the ordinary oc…
Laudato si: Continuité Et Changement Dans Le Magistère Catholique Sur L'écologie, l'Économie Et La Vie Humaine
Tout en se situant dans le sillon du magistère de Paul VI, Jean-Paul II et Benoît XVI sur l'écologie, l'encyclique Laudato si' a soulevé, à sa publication en juin 2015, une marée de commentaires et de réactions qui, aux yeux de l'opinion publique internationale, a fait entrer pour la première fois l'Église catholique dans les grands débats sur la crise de l'environnement. En fait Laudato si' se distingue par quelques innovations marquantes, qui o…
An Interpretive Account of Individual, Nonviolent Radicalization
While recent research has focused on radicalization mainly in relation to religiously inspired terrorism, we suggest that radicalization is not intrinsically tied to political violence or group recruitment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Italy, we analyze two case studies—one religious and one secular—of individual, nonviolent radicalization bearing on personal choices of lifestyle and ethics. We rely on 33 interviews with Catholic …
Vers un catholicisme « exemplaire
Depuis le Concile Vatican II on voit renaître deux anciennes consécrations, celles des ermites et des vierges, qui relèvent d'une même spiritualité du témoignage. Après avoir présenté dans le détail le cas italien, et avoir décrit les principes du témoignage catholique, on fait l'hypothèse que ces formes d'engagement sont des phénomènes de religiosité exemplaire greffés sur la tradition éthique du catholicisme (on emprunte la dichotomie éthique -…
Secularization as a Property of Action
English Assuming that religion is socially relevant to the extent that it has influence on action, the article invites reconsideration of secularization not as a long-term historical process but as a property of action: any action, or a whole domain of action (economy, warfare, art, nutrition, sex, etc.), is therefore secularized if in carrying it out people are not influenced by religious doctrines or feelings about the way it should be done, an…
Éthique et engagement dans un groupe antispéciste
Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête ethnographique sur une association italienne qui lutte pour les droits des animaux, en se focalisant sur les aspects éthiques de cette forme d'engagement. Par contraste avec l'antispécisme des philosophes moraux, je me propose de définir la version élaborée par ce groupe comme « antispécisme anti-humaniste », vu que, au sein de ce collectif, la défense des animaux va de pair avec un mépris pour les…
Consecrated Virgins in Italy: A Case Study in the Renovation of Catholic Religious Life
Catholic religious life has undergone major changes since the Second Vatican Council. These have to do with the relationship between the individual and the institution and the place of consecrated people in contemporary society, among other issues. This article focuses on the consecration of virgins. It is a very ancient rite, re-established by the Church in 1970. The women make a public promise of perpetual virginity. They do not belong to any r…
Foi, raison et nature selon le magistère romain (1846-1978)
La confrontation entre l'autorité catholique et le monde moderne a laissé des traces profondes dans le magistère, qui est encore aujourd'hui l'un des principaux moyens de construction d'une identité catholique et de mobilisation des croyants. À partir de la moitié du xixe siècle, les papes ont notamment construit un discours sur la cohérence entre foi et raison qui se pose ouvertement en conflit avec la position des Lumières, qui visait leur sépa…
Vatican biopolitics
The author argues that the Vatican’s teaching on family, sexuality and human life is best understood within the frame of Foucault’s concept of biopolitics. His hypothesis is based on two major claims: first, that in the 20th century the Pope took on a new role, that of manager of populations of believers; and second, that a number of essential functions for the Church as an organization, such as the recruitment of members and of clergy, the maint…
L'Église catholique et la cause de l'environnement
Depuis les années 1970, le magistère des papes a pris en compte la critique écologique et en a proposé une version compatible avec la tradition catholique. À ces déclarations, le Vatican n'a guère donné suite par un engagement efficace et cohérent. En Amérique latine cependant, où l'écologie et la cause des pauvres sont étroitement liées, la théologie de la libération et les « communautés de base » ont sérieusement abordé les problèmes environnem…
Centralized globalization: The Holy See and human mobility since World War II
Through an examination of the official teaching of the Church I show how the increased mobility of large masses of Catholics since World War II has led to continuing efforts by the Holy See to follow and, to a certain extent, to control these fluxes of people. In turn, global human mobility has had an influence on institutional structures and on the self-understanding of the Church. While this evolution has contributed to the globalization of the…
Pride and Burden: The Quest for Consistency in the Anti-Speciesist Movement
This article draws on 22 interviews with Italian anti-speciesists to develop a sociological account of the quest for ethical consistency in the animal rights movement. The essay analyzes three relevant consequences of the search for consistency—identity extension, social segregation, and self-transformation—and discusses their impact on the activists’ lives. Consistency appears as both a source of self-gratification and a burden. On the one hand,…
An Interpretive Account of Individual, Nonviolent Radicalization
While recent research has focused on radicalization mainly in relation to religiously inspired terrorism, we suggest that radicalization is not intrinsically tied to political violence or group recruitment. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Italy, we analyze two case studies—one religious and one secular—of individual, nonviolent radicalization bearing on personal choices of lifestyle and ethics. We rely on 33 interviews with Catholic …
Laudato si: Continuité Et Changement Dans Le Magistère Catholique Sur L'écologie, l'Économie Et La Vie Humaine
Tout en se situant dans le sillon du magistère de Paul VI, Jean-Paul II et Benoît XVI sur l'écologie, l'encyclique Laudato si' a soulevé, à sa publication en juin 2015, une marée de commentaires et de réactions qui, aux yeux de l'opinion publique internationale, a fait entrer pour la première fois l'Église catholique dans les grands débats sur la crise de l'environnement. En fait Laudato si' se distingue par quelques innovations marquantes, qui o…
Echoes of Hesiod’s Works and Days in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
On a close reading, the parallels between Hesiod’s "Works and Days" and Eliot’s "The Waste Land" seem abundant enough to warrant comprehensive treatment. In this paper I discuss a range of textual and thematic coincidences between them. Indeed, besides any recognizable textual, mythological and thematic convergence, I would suggest that Hesiod’s epic gave Eliot a mirror with which to compare ancient and modern civilization. Whilst the latter is i…
Tarde's ancestors. Imitation and crowds from Hobbes to Locke
Sociological studies on imitation and crowds usually point to the late nineteenth-century French jurist and sociologist Gabriel Tarde as their forerunner. This article argues that a lively debate on those issues already existed in Europe in the late seventeenth century. A review of works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Malebranche and Locke will show how they commented upon the dangerous influence of charismatic leaders over excitable mobs or the ordinary oc…
The Guardians’ Guards: Catholic Environmentalism in the Brazilian Amazon
Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato si’ has been hailed as a historic milestone in the greening of the Catholic Church. However, little empirical research has explored the implementation of the pope’s ambitious environmental program. This sociological study examines the progress and limits of Catholic ecological commitment in the Brazilian Amazon. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2023 in the state of Amazonas, the article aims to …
Progressive Catholics in Brazil and the Struggle for an Ecological Conversion
Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in 2023, this article investigates the ecological commitment of progressive Catholics in Brazil. After retracing the historical environmental record of the Brazilian Church, it focuses on organizational and ideological aspects of Catholic environmentalism today. Subsequently, it deals with the personal profiles of activists and the challenges they face in the context of serious threats directed against env…
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