{"id":78422,"date":"2021-04-07T10:53:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T08:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/?post_type=cini_publications&p=78422"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:18:13","slug":"religiographies","status":"publish","type":"cini_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/cini_publications\/religiographies\/","title":{"rendered":"Religiographies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Open-access and peer-reviewed journal, curated by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities<\/a> at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini.<\/span><\/p>\n

Religiographies<\/em> is dedicated to the study of religious phenomena, fostering an interdisciplinary dialogue among historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and psychologists. Mysticism, esotericism, and spirituality are the three main themes of the journal, which are explored within their historical and cultural contexts, challenging traditional categories of religion. The heterographie<\/em> section, dedicated to artistic and visual works, expands the understanding of the phenomena discussed.<\/p>\n

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Religiographies<\/em> is an open-access, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal dedicated to the field of religious studies and published under the auspices of the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities of the Giorgio Cini Foundation. Since 2025, it has been recognised by ANVUR (the agency of the Ministry of Education) as a scientific journal for Area 11 (Historical, Philosophical, Pedagogical and Psychological Studies); Religiographies<\/em>\u00a0wishes to foster an interdisciplinary approach to religious phenomena, promoting dialogue between historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, philosophers, and psychologists.<\/p>\n

We aim at promoting an anthropological history and at the same time a socio-anthropology with a strong historical emphasis, intending to avoid both socio-anthropological presentism and history only focused on ideas and institutions, while ignoring materiality, emotions, everyday lives.<\/p>\n

We encourage at deconstructing and challenging categories (including the very word \u201creligion\u201d) not as a theoretical exercise, a proof of concept, but as a practice, showing with fieldwork data, the porosity and frailty of our categories.<\/p>\n

We aim at discussing those topics that are often neglected by social and human sciences \u2013 such as mysticism, esotericism, spirituality \u2013 which, in the words of Michel de Certeau, \u201chaunt scientific epistemology\u201d. Our aim is not to create another journal on alternative spiritualities, but to bring these themes back into mainstream discussions of religious and cultural phenomena.<\/p>\n

Finally, with the concept of heterographies\u2013 we intend to give space to other forms of representations, such as photography, comics, video, and artwork. These other languages will allow contributors \u2013 scholars and artists \u2013 to explore dimensions beyond the social sciences frame of objectiveness and coherence. This section, called heterographies, is not strictly scientific: it will not be peer-reviewed, but will receive feedback from the editors and invited commentators.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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We invite submission on all religious phenomena, with a special focus on:<\/p>\n