Italian
The conference will conclude on Sunday morning with two more presentations. Piero Stefani will speak about the Bible, America and Israel: the expansion of Christian Zionism, while Valentina Ciciliot will inform us about Conversions and neo-fundamentalism in today’s America.
Piero Stefani is a professor of Bible and culture at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan and teaches Jewish and Israeli law at the University of Milan. President of the Ecumenical Activities Secretariat, he is an editor of the magazine “Il Regno”. A scholar of the biblical text, in his research he has explored the origins of Judaism and the relationships between Judaism and Christianity, from both a theological and historical-anthropological perspective.
Valentina Ciciliot is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches North America Christianity and Christianity and Ecology. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doc fellow at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame, US).
As can be seen from the intense program and the caliber of the proposed interventions, the aim is to create a space for reflection on how the Bible has influenced American history and how it is doing so in our present, following the religious phenomena that are influencing today’s American politics and consequently global geopolitics. These are interesting aspects that not only represent a curiosity but can also enhance our general knowledge, and above all, our critical ability to better understand the world we live in.
The conference tomorrow, April 18, includes two more presentations in the morning at 9:30 AM: the first on The Role of the Bible in the American Civil War by Massimo Faggioli and the second titled Biblical Fundamentalism between the 19th and 20th Century by Enzo Pace.
Massimo Faggioli, who graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna in 1994, worked as a researcher at the “Giovanni XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences” in Bologna from 1996 to 2008 and obtained his PhD in Religious History from the University of Turin in 2002. He spent research periods at the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen (1999-2000), at the Faculté de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses at Université Laval in Quebec (2002), and at the Universität Potsdam (2004). He worked as an analyst at the “Centro Studi Progetto Europeo” in Bologna (2005-2012). He moved to the United States in 2008 as a visiting fellow at Boston College and was hired as an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis – St. Paul, USA) in September 2009. He teaches, writes, and researches the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism, the history of ecclesiastical institutions and new Catholic movements, and religion and politics. His articles and essays have been published and translated into eight languages. He collaborates with various Italian and international journals.
On Saturday evening there will be a public conference at 9:45 PM on The Bible in American Cinema by Guido Bertagna, who is a Jesuit with studies in art and theology. From 1997 to 2009 he worked at the San Fedele Cultural Center and in San Vittore prison. He collaborates on restorative justice pathways and continues his work as a sculptor and painter.
The conference will conclude on Sunday morning with two more presentations. Piero Stefani will speak about the Bible, America and Israel: the expansion of Christian Zionism, while Valentina Ciciliot will inform us about Conversions and neo-fundamentalism in today’s America.
Piero Stefani is a professor of Bible and culture at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan and teaches Jewish and Israeli law at the University of Milan. President of the Ecumenical Activities Secretariat, he is an editor of the magazine “Il Regno”. A scholar of the biblical text, in his research he has explored the origins of Judaism and the relationships between Judaism and Christianity, from both a theological and historical-anthropological perspective.
Valentina Ciciliot is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches North America Christianity and Christianity and Ecology. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doc fellow at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame, US).
As can be seen from the intense program and the caliber of the proposed interventions, the aim is to create a space for reflection on how the Bible has influenced American history and how it is doing so in our present, following the religious phenomena that are influencing today’s American politics and consequently global geopolitics. These are interesting aspects that not only represent a curiosity but can also enhance our general knowledge, and above all, our critical ability to better understand the world we live in.
The Bible promotes the knowledge of the Bible among the women and men of our time, beyond possible and diverse religious beliefs, and respects the values associated with various faith affiliations, but is independent of any denomination. The secular nature of the Association is manifested in being an opportunity for meeting and dialogue for people from diverse backgrounds, united by the common desire for study and knowledge of the “Book of books”.
On Friday, April 17th in the afternoon there were two presentations: one on The migration of the Puritans to the promised land by Massimo Rubboli and the other America, land of revelation: the Book of Mormon by Massimo Introvigne.
Massimo Rubboli is a professor of North American History at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Genoa. He focuses on political and religious history as well as the history of pacifism and nonviolence. He is a member of the international board of the Peace History Society.
Massimo Introvigne is a sociologist and the founder and director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars studying new religious movements. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he served within the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) as the Representative for the fight against racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, with a particular focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. Since June 2012, he has been the coordinator of the Observatory on Religious Freedom established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with Rome Capital.
The conference tomorrow, April 18, includes two more presentations in the morning at 9:30 AM: the first on The Role of the Bible in the American Civil War by Massimo Faggioli and the second titled Biblical Fundamentalism between the 19th and 20th Century by Enzo Pace.
Massimo Faggioli, who graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna in 1994, worked as a researcher at the “Giovanni XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences” in Bologna from 1996 to 2008 and obtained his PhD in Religious History from the University of Turin in 2002. He spent research periods at the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen (1999-2000), at the Faculté de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses at Université Laval in Quebec (2002), and at the Universität Potsdam (2004). He worked as an analyst at the “Centro Studi Progetto Europeo” in Bologna (2005-2012). He moved to the United States in 2008 as a visiting fellow at Boston College and was hired as an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis – St. Paul, USA) in September 2009. He teaches, writes, and researches the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism, the history of ecclesiastical institutions and new Catholic movements, and religion and politics. His articles and essays have been published and translated into eight languages. He collaborates with various Italian and international journals.
On Saturday evening there will be a public conference at 9:45 PM on The Bible in American Cinema by Guido Bertagna, who is a Jesuit with studies in art and theology. From 1997 to 2009 he worked at the San Fedele Cultural Center and in San Vittore prison. He collaborates on restorative justice pathways and continues his work as a sculptor and painter.
The conference will conclude on Sunday morning with two more presentations. Piero Stefani will speak about the Bible, America and Israel: the expansion of Christian Zionism, while Valentina Ciciliot will inform us about Conversions and neo-fundamentalism in today’s America.
Piero Stefani is a professor of Bible and culture at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan and teaches Jewish and Israeli law at the University of Milan. President of the Ecumenical Activities Secretariat, he is an editor of the magazine “Il Regno”. A scholar of the biblical text, in his research he has explored the origins of Judaism and the relationships between Judaism and Christianity, from both a theological and historical-anthropological perspective.
Valentina Ciciliot is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches North America Christianity and Christianity and Ecology. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doc fellow at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame, US).
As can be seen from the intense program and the caliber of the proposed interventions, the aim is to create a space for reflection on how the Bible has influenced American history and how it is doing so in our present, following the religious phenomena that are influencing today’s American politics and consequently global geopolitics. These are interesting aspects that not only represent a curiosity but can also enhance our general knowledge, and above all, our critical ability to better understand the world we live in.
A conference
organized by
Biblia
at the Bishop’s Seminary of Treviso
The presence of the Bible in American history is a constant.
From the Pilgrim Fathers of the Seventeenth Century to the present day, the Book of books has powerfully influenced the collective ethos and the very politics across the ocean.
It has done so in a varied and even contradictory manner: it has opened up horizons of egalitarian democratic freedoms and has fueled discrimination; it has put forward many innovative cultural proposals and has given rise to literalist fundamentalism.
The United States, in the religious fervor that has always characterized them, has also been the land where the presence of another book, the Book of Mormon, has emerged as a complement to biblical revelation.
In our days, the Bible promotes both the identification of Americans with the chosen people and U.S. support for the State of Israel; not to mention that it contributes to the development of apocalyptic visions of history aimed at achieving a so-called definitive victory over evil.
We are therefore faced with a series of themes that are all highly relevant, which the conference organized at the Bishop’s Seminary in Treviso from April 17 to 19 seeks to examine with the contribution of various eminent scholars, called upon by the secular association of biblical culture BIBLIA.
The Bible promotes the knowledge of the Bible among the women and men of our time, beyond possible and diverse religious beliefs, and respects the values associated with various faith affiliations, but is independent of any denomination. The secular nature of the Association is manifested in being an opportunity for meeting and dialogue for people from diverse backgrounds, united by the common desire for study and knowledge of the “Book of books”.
On Friday, April 17th in the afternoon there were two presentations: one on The migration of the Puritans to the promised land by Massimo Rubboli and the other America, land of revelation: the Book of Mormon by Massimo Introvigne.
Massimo Rubboli is a professor of North American History at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Genoa. He focuses on political and religious history as well as the history of pacifism and nonviolence. He is a member of the international board of the Peace History Society.
Massimo Introvigne is a sociologist and the founder and director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars studying new religious movements. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he served within the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) as the Representative for the fight against racism, xenophobia, and discrimination, with a particular focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. Since June 2012, he has been the coordinator of the Observatory on Religious Freedom established by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with Rome Capital.
The conference tomorrow, April 18, includes two more presentations in the morning at 9:30 AM: the first on The Role of the Bible in the American Civil War by Massimo Faggioli and the second titled Biblical Fundamentalism between the 19th and 20th Century by Enzo Pace.
Massimo Faggioli, who graduated in Political Science from the University of Bologna in 1994, worked as a researcher at the “Giovanni XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences” in Bologna from 1996 to 2008 and obtained his PhD in Religious History from the University of Turin in 2002. He spent research periods at the Karl-Eberhards-Universität Tübingen (1999-2000), at the Faculté de Théologie et Sciences Religieuses at Université Laval in Quebec (2002), and at the Universität Potsdam (2004). He worked as an analyst at the “Centro Studi Progetto Europeo” in Bologna (2005-2012). He moved to the United States in 2008 as a visiting fellow at Boston College and was hired as an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis – St. Paul, USA) in September 2009. He teaches, writes, and researches the history of Christianity and contemporary Catholicism, the history of ecclesiastical institutions and new Catholic movements, and religion and politics. His articles and essays have been published and translated into eight languages. He collaborates with various Italian and international journals.
On Saturday evening there will be a public conference at 9:45 PM on The Bible in American Cinema by Guido Bertagna, who is a Jesuit with studies in art and theology. From 1997 to 2009 he worked at the San Fedele Cultural Center and in San Vittore prison. He collaborates on restorative justice pathways and continues his work as a sculptor and painter.
The conference will conclude on Sunday morning with two more presentations. Piero Stefani will speak about the Bible, America and Israel: the expansion of Christian Zionism, while Valentina Ciciliot will inform us about Conversions and neo-fundamentalism in today’s America.
Piero Stefani is a professor of Bible and culture at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy in Milan and teaches Jewish and Israeli law at the University of Milan. President of the Ecumenical Activities Secretariat, he is an editor of the magazine “Il Regno”. A scholar of the biblical text, in his research he has explored the origins of Judaism and the relationships between Judaism and Christianity, from both a theological and historical-anthropological perspective.
Valentina Ciciliot is a researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches North America Christianity and Christianity and Ecology. Between 2016 and 2019, she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doc fellow at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari and the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame, US).
As can be seen from the intense program and the caliber of the proposed interventions, the aim is to create a space for reflection on how the Bible has influenced American history and how it is doing so in our present, following the religious phenomena that are influencing today’s American politics and consequently global geopolitics. These are interesting aspects that not only represent a curiosity but can also enhance our general knowledge, and above all, our critical ability to better understand the world we live in.
