Religiographies 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 wishes to foster an interdisciplinary approach to religious phenomena, promoting dialogue between historians, sociologists, anthropologists, literary scholars, philosophers, and psychologists.

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.

We encourage at deconstructing and challenging categories (including the very word “religion”) not as a theoretical exercise, a proof of concept, but as a practice, showing with fieldwork data, the porosity and frailty of our categories.

We aim at discussing those topics that are often neglected by social and human sciences – such as mysticism, esotericism, spirituality – which, in the words of Michel de Certeau, “haunt scientific epistemology”. 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.

Finally, with the concept of heterographies– we intend to give space to other forms of representations, such as photography, comics, video, and artwork. These other languages will allow contributors – scholars and artists – 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.

We invite submission on all religious phenomena, with a special focus on:

• comparative approaches;
• cultural transfers: acculturation, appropriation, imagination;
• continuities and discontinuities between religious discourses and everyday life practices;
• transhistorical perspective, stressing the connections between old and new trends;
• liminal phenomena between the secular and the religious;
• the relationship with alterity, understood not only as religious, but also in terms of gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity;
• phenomenology of the religious body: perceptions, emotions, sensations and construction of the body;
• epistemological and methodological debates about the transferability and translatability of religious studies categories.

Editor-in-chief

Francesco Piraino, Fondazione Giorgio Cini / Harvard Divinity School

Editors

Mark Sedgwick , University of Aarhus

Dionigi Albera, CNRS-IDEMEC

Assistant editors

Elena Bernardinello, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Eva Salviato, Fondazione Giorgio Cini

Copy editor and proofreader

Anna Fitzgerald

Book Reviews

Valentina Gaddi, Université de Montréal

Editorial board

Stefano Allievi, University of Padua

Egil Asprem, University of Stockholm

Katell Berthelot, CNRS–Aix-Marseille University

Francesco Cerchiaro, Radboud University

Andrea De Antoni, University of Kyoto

John Eade, University of Roehampton

Diana Espírito Santo, Universidad Catholica de Chile

Fabrizio Ferrari, University of Padua

Mattia Fumanti , University of St. Andrews

Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua

Alberta Giorgi, University of Bergamo

Boaz Huss, Ben Gurion University

Salvatore La Mendola, University of Padua

Marco Pasi, University of Amsterdam

Enzo Pace, University of Padua

Stefania Palmisano, University of Turin

Vadim Putzu, Missouri State University

Khalid Razzhali, University of Padua

Antonio Rigopoulos, University of Ca’ Foscari

Armando Salvatore, University of McGill

Chiara Tommasi, University of Pisa

Fabio Vicini, University of Verona

Religiographies vol.3 n.2 (2024)

Religiographies vol.3 n.1 (2024)

Religiographies vol.2 n.2 (2023)

Religiographies vol.2 n.1 (2023)

Religiographies vol.1 n.1 (2022)