Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Department of History, Cultures and Religions - Research Fellow

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1 Valerio Salvatore Severino Curriculum vitae Surname, Given Name: Severino, Valerio Salvatore Birth: April 2 th, 1972, in Rome (Italy) Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), Department of History, Cultures and Religions - Research Fellow valerio.severino@uniroma1.it Academic training Ph.D. in Religious History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Competitive examination: classified first. Dissertation title Italia religiosa. Percorsi nella vita di Ernesto de Martino [Religious Italy. Stages in Ernesto de Martino s Intellectual Life], supervisor prof. Enrico Montanari. Commission appreciation for the originality of the research and methodological competence (April 2005); Studies in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Rome La Sapienza. Graduation in July Degree thesis supervisor prof. Marco Maria Olivetti. Graduated summa cum laude; Studies in History of Religions at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of Religious Studies (Dipartimento di Studi storicoreligiosi). Graduation in December 1996 Degree thesis supervisor prof. Dario Sabbatucci. Graduated summa cum laude. Research Main fields of research: - History of scientific study of religions in Italian culture: prominent scholars (Raffaele Pettazzoni ( ), Ernesto de Martino ( ), Ernesto Buonaiuti ( ), Pietro Tacchi Venturi ( ), Angelo De Gubernatis ( )); academic disciplines; relations between the Italian State and the Catholic Church; relations between politics and intellectuals; - Religion and Politics: political and civil religion in Italy (fascist political liturgy, cult of the fatherland); - Religion and Art: Italian Novecentismo (First half of the 20th Century); Video Art. 1

2 Experiences: 2001 research conducted in the historical archive of the Istituto dell Enciclopedia Italiana (Rome) and the Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu (Rome). Research supervisor prof. Margarete Durst (University of Rome Tor Vergata); research conducted in the historical archive of the Italian Communist Party, Ideological Commission (Fondazione - Istituto Gramsci, Rome). Research supervisor prof. Albertina Vittoria (University of Sassari); research conducted in visual anthropology, archive of Archivio Diego Carpitella (University of Rome La Sapienza) and the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions (Roma). Collaboration with dr. Emilia De Simone (Museo delle Arti e Tradizioni popolari, Rome); National Academy of Lincei (Rome) Raffaele Pettazzoni scholarship for studies in the History of Religions. Research project: critical edition of Pettazzoni s scientific last notes, manuscripts , Fondo Pettazzoni, G.C. Croce library archive in San Giovanni in Persiceto (Bologna, Italy). Research supervisor prof. Enrico Montanari (University of Rome La Sapienza); 2009 EASR (European Association for the Study of Religions) Bursary; Luigi Salvatorelli Foundation (Marsciano - Perugia, Italy). Research scholarship in the History of religions. Competitive examination: classified first. Project topic: The Study of Religions in the Italian Universities: from the Abolition of the Theological Faculties (1883) to the Lateran Treaty (1929). Archival research: Ministry of Public Education s historical archive, Central Archive of the State (Rome); 2011 February - April: Archivio Cesare Cattaneo s Research programme. Research conducted in Franco Ciliberti s archive (Como, Italy). Project topic: Novecentismo art movement and religious studies in the early 20th century. Supervisor prof. Natale Spineto (History of Religions, University of Turin); 2012 March: research conducted in Angelo De Gubernatis s archive (National Library of Florence (Italy). Project topic: Early Italian History of Religions Comparative Studies in the European Context. Supervisor prof. Natale Spineto (History of Religions, University of Turin); 2013 Researches on the political liturgy of the fascist sanctuaries conducted in Archivio Centrale dello Stato (Central Archives of the State) in Rome, in particular the archives of the Italian President of the Council of Ministers (period ) and of the Ministry of Interior; also in the archives of the Museo Centrale del Risorgimento (Central Risorgimento s Museum), located at Rome s Vittoriano, as well as in the Museo Nazionale di Castel S. Angelo (Castle of the Holy Angel s National Museum); 2

3 2014 Researches on the civil ritual of the Roll Call of the dead performed in Poland, conducted in Warsaw in the Biblioteka Uniwersytecka BUW and in the Biblioteka Narodowa. Supervisor prof. Zbigniew Mikołejko (National Polish Academy of Sciences - IFiS PAN Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Department of Religious Studies); 2015 Research project Polish and Italian Historians of Religions between the Destalinization and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Issues of Religious Historiography in Scholarly Correspondences, Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw); 2015 SISR (Italian Association for the Study of Religions) Bursary. Teaching: University of Rome La Sapienza former Department of Religious Studies (now Department of History, Cultures and Religions) : teaching assistant, Chair of History of Religions. From December 2005: Research Fellow (Cultore della materia) in the History of Religions at the University of Rome La Sapienza; Courses taught: History of Religions - December January 2006: The Interdisciplinary Research in Ernesto de Martino s Approach towards Italian Folk Traditions; - December January 2007: Psychic Powers and the Modern Concept of Reality in Ernesto de Martino s Studies in Primitive Magic; - December January 2008: Dirge Symbolism and Death Rituals in Ernesto de Martino s Studies in Southern Italian Traditions March July: supervisor of the accord Erasmus/Socrates European Mobility Program with the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) Area: History and Sciences of Religions 2009 February March: scientific seminars at the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome). Collaboration between the International Association Ernesto de Martino and the University of Rome La Sapienza Central Research projects and cultural events office; From December 2005 to November 2012: member and teaching assistant, examination committee, History of Religions; From July 2006 to January 2013: Degree theses supervisor and assistant supervisor of bachelor and master in Religious Studies. 3

4 Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw May 2014 guest lecture at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw, Poland (Histoire religieuse des larmes. L oeuvre de Ernesto de Martino); June 2014 guest lecture at the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (The Pathologies of the Sacred in State Religions. Raffaele Pettazzoni's Studies on the Failure of Secularization in Italian History). Recent conferences XXI World Congress - International Association for the History of Religions - Erfurt August Panel Chair: Nationalism, Transnationalism, Globalization: Dynamics of Civil Religions - Thematic congress area Religious Communities in Society: Adaptation and Transformation I National Congress of the Italian Society for the History of Religions [Società Italiana di Storia delle Religioni] - Roma, La Sapienza, 8-9 April 2016 La Storia delle religioni e la sfida dei pluralismi. Panel Chair: Altro, Totalmente Altro, alterità: tematiche del plurale nelle religioni Editorial activities - Storia, Antropologia, Storia del linguaggio [History, Anthropology, Language sciences] University of Cassino (Italy), ISSN Advisory Board since 2010; - Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni University of Rome La Sapienza, Department of History, Cultures, Religions: Peer Reviewer since 2010; Editorial Secretariat since Mundus on line journal of the Ernesto de Martino International Association (Rome) - Advisory Board since 2015 (work in progress) Memberships - Italian Society for the History of Religions (SISR, Rome) affiliated to the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) member since 2007; - Ernesto de Martino International Association (Rome) member since

5 List of publications A) Monograph In progress - Violenza e Cristianesimo nell Italia fascista [Violence and Christianity in the Fascist Italy]. Quaderni di Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni. Brescia: Morcelliana La religione di questo mondo in Raffaele Pettazzoni [ The Religion of this World in Raffaele Pettazzoni s Works]. Roma: Bulzoni, 194 pp. [ISBN: ] Reviews of the book: NUMEN (International Review for the History of Religions [Journal of the International Association for the History of Religions]), 58 (2011): (English); RELIGION (international journal) 41 (2011, 2): (English); STUDIA PATAVINA [Journal of Religious Sciences Pontifical University Padova (Italy)], 57 (2010, 2): (Italian); MYTHOS [Review of History of Religions University of Palermo (Italy)], 18 (2011): (Italian); STORIA ANTROPOLOGIA E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [Journal of the University of Cassino (Italy)], 2010: (Italian); RELIGIONE E SOCIETÀ [Journal of Social Sciences of Religion], 76 (2013, 2): (Italian). B) Other publications Editoriale. Scienza, religione, razza nell Italia degli anni Trenta. In: Alberto Latorre (ed.), Il carteggio Zolli-Pettazzoni ( ). Vicende, collaborazioni, cautele. Department of History, Cultures, Religions. University of Rome La Sapienza. Brescia: Morcelliana: Il Sacrificio dell immagine in Bill Viola. Appunti sulla rappresentazione del sacro nell arte elettronica [The Sacrifice of the Image in Bill Viola s Art. Notes on the Representation of the Sacred in Video Art]. In: Le religioni e le arti [Religion and Art], eds. Sergio Botta Tessa Canella. Department of History, Cultures, Religions. University of Rome La Sapienza. Brescia: Morcelliana: La dittatura della presenza. Aspetti politici del concetto di sciamano in Ernesto de Martino [The Dictatorship of the Presence. Political Aspects of 5

6 the Concept of Shaman in Ernesto de Martino s Works]. In: Sciamanesimo Sciamanesimi. Un problema storiografico [Shamanism and Shamanisms. An Historiographical Inquiry], eds. Luca Arcari and Alessandro Saggioro. Roma: Nuova Cultura: 81-93; Cavalli di Troia e rifugi. Fenomenologia e storicismo intorno al Congresso IAHR Marburgo Dall epistolario di Vittorio Lanternari e Mircea Eliade [Trojan horses and refuges. Phenomenology and Historicism at the IAHR Congress Marburg Vittorio Lanternari Mircea Eliade epistolary correspondence], STORIOGRAFIA. RIVISTA ANUALE DI STORIA, vol. 18: For a secular return to the sacred: Raffaele Pettazzoni's last statement on the name of the science of religions, RELIGION (Journal), vol. 44: 1-23 [ISSN: X] Irresponsabilità e comunità nel culto della morte patriottica. La tradizione degli Altari della Patria [Irresponsibility and Community in the Patriotic Death Worship. The Tradition of the Altar of the Fatherland], STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 80, 1: [ISSN: ] Angelo De Gubernatis al primo congresso internazionale di Storia delle religioni. Rappresentanza e percezione degli studi italiani nella Francia di fine Ottocento. [Angelo De Gubernatis at the First International Congress of History of Religions. The Representation and Reception of the Italian Studies in 19th Century France]. In: La storiografia storico-religiosa italiana tra la fine dell 800 e la seconda guerra mondiale [The Italian Studies of History of Religions between the End of the 19th Century and the Second World War. A Historiographical Approach], eds. Mario Mazza and Natale Spineto. Alessandria: Edizioni dell Orso: [ISBN ] Cronaca della prima ricezione de Il mondo magico (Italia, ) [Early Reception of Ernesto de Martino s The Magic World (Italy, )]. QUADERNI DI STORIA, ANTROPOLOGIA E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO, vol. 14: ; Note e riflessioni sull'edizione brelichiana de Gli ultimi appunti [Annotations and Reflections on Angelo Brelich s Edition of Raffaele Pettazzoni s Last Notes ]. In: AAVV. Il mistero che rivelato ci divide e sofferto ci unisce. Studi pettazzoniani in onore di Mario Gandini. Milano and Udine: Mimesis: [ISBN: ] 6

7 Le mur de la laïcité (1961). Histoire des religions et sécularisation de l'histoire en Italie [The Wall of laïcité (1961). History of Religions and Secularization of History in Italy]. STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 77: [ISSN: ] Il contraltare della patria. Cristianesimo e laicità nel monumento alla Terza Roma ( )[The Counter-altar of the Fatherland. Christianity and Secularization of the Monument to the Third Rome ( )]. STORIA, ANTROPOLOGIA E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO, vol. 26: [ISSN: ] Il Mito delle analogie sommerse. Novecentismo letterario e storia delle religioni in Franco Ciliberti ( ) [The Myth of the Submerged Analogies. The Literary Novecentismo and History of Religions in Franco Ciliberti s Works ( )]. In: È Dio il vero tema. Cesare Cattaneo e il sacro, ed. Maria Antonietta Crippa and Damiano Cattaneo. Como: Archivio Cattaneo Editore: [ISBN ] Ciliberti, Franco. Panteismo e Pessimismo nello sviluppo delle religioni eurasiatiche (1929) [Pantheism and Pessimism in the Development of Religions in Eurasia. A critical edition], ed. Valerio Salvatore Severino. In: È Dio il vero tema. Cesare Cattaneo e il sacro, ed. Maria Antonietta Crippa and Damiano Cattaneo. Como: Archivio Cattaneo Editore: [ISBN ] "Chi siamo": nascita e presupposti di una collana editoriale ( ) [ Chi siamo : the Birth and Premises of an Editorial Series ( )]. In: AAVV. Scritti in onore di Gilberto Mazzoleni. Roma: Bulzoni: [ISBN: ] Soggetto e origine della realtà nell'interpretazione storico-religiosa del mito [Subject and Origin of the Reality in Historical-Religious Interpretation of Myth]. In: AAVV. Storia delle religioni e archeologia. Discipline a confronto. Roma. Alpes: [ISBN: ] Religione del presente versus tempo della presenza [Religion of the Present versus the Time of Presence]. STORIA, ANTROPOLOGIA E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO, vol. 24: [ISSN: ] Carteggi sulla Storia del magismo di Ernesto de Martino. Dal laboratorio del "mondo magico" [Correspondence regarding Ernesto de Martino s History of Magic. The Preparations of the Magic World ]. STORIOGRAFIA, vol. 12: [ISSN: ]

8 La dialettica del pensiero primitivo in Raffaele Pettazzoni ( )[The Dialectics of Primitive Thought in Raffaele Pettazzoni s Studies]. MYTHOS. RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol : [ISSN: ] Una recente pubblicazione su Mircea Eliade a un secolo dalla sua nascita ( ) [A Recent Publication on Mircea Eliade at 100 th Anniversary of his Birth ( )]. STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 73: [ISSN: ] «Ricerche religiose» e «Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni»: il sorgere simultaneo di due riviste [ Ricerche religiose and Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni : a Simultaneous Arise of two Periodicals]. STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 72: [ISSN: ] La ragione storica dei colori. Ernesto de Martino: [The Humanistic Reason of Chromatic Symbology. Ernesto de Martino: ]. STORIOGRAFIA, vol. 8: [ISSN: ] Da Raffaele Pettazzoni a Carlo Alberto Blanc. Una premeditata successione all'incarico di Etnologia [From Raffaele Pettazzoni to Carlo Alberto Blanc. A Premeditated Succession in the Ethnology]. STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 70: [ISSN: ] Ernesto de Martino nel Pci degli anni Cinquanta, tra religione e politica culturale [Ernesto de Martino Member of Pci in the 1950s. Religion and Cultural Politics]. STUDI STORICI, vol. 44: [ISSN: ] Ernesto de Martino e «Nuovi argomenti». Il ripristino della critica marxista in campo religioso [Ernesto de Martino e Nuovi Argomenti. A Reactivation of the Marxist Criticism in the Religious Field]. NUOVI ARGOMENTI, vol. 22 n. s.: [ISSN: ] La storia delle religioni italiana nei primi anni della Conciliazione. Documenti e riflessioni su Pietro Tacchi Venturi S. J. [The Italian History of Religions in the First Years after Lateran Accords. Documents and Reflections on Pietro Tacchi Venturi]. STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI, vol. 68: [ISSN: ] Ernesto de Martino nel circolo crociano di Villa Laterza: Contributo a una contestualizzazione politica de Il mondo magico [Ernesto de Martino in Benedetto Croce s Circle of Villa Laterza ]. LA CULTURA, vol. 40: [ISSN: ] 8

9 Giovanni Gentile e Raffaele Pettazzoni ( ). Un carteggio sulla storia delle religioni e l'università in Italia [Giovanni Gentile and Raffaele Pettazzoni ( ). Letters on the History of Religions and Academic Institutionalization in Italy]. In: La storia comparata delle religioni, ed. Giovanni Filoramo and Natale Spineto. Pisa and Roma: Istituto editoriale e poligrafici: [ISBN: X] Gentile, Giovanni and Pettazzoni, Raffaele. Carteggio [Epistolary ], ed. Valerio Salvatore Severino. In: La storia comparata delle religioni, ed. Giovanni Filoramo and Natale Spineto. Pisa and Roma: Istituto editoriale e poligrafici: [ISBN: X] Gentile, Tacchi Venturi e l'enciclopedia italiana [Gentile, Tacchi Venturi and the Italian Encyclopedia]. STORIOGRAFIA, vol. 6: 9-11 [ISSN: ] C) Accepted for publication 1 - Reconfiguring Nationalism: the Roll Call of the Fallen Soldiers ( ). JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN EUROPE (2016) - Special Issue Aesthetics of Civil Religion ed. Anne Koch; 2 - The irreligiousness of Fascism: the concept of a religion of the state in Raffaele Pettazzoni s studies. Analysis of the subtext. NUMEN. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS (2016); 3 - La Commissione per lo studio dei problemi della laicità. L Ufficio ideologico e culturale del Partito Socialista Italiano nel biennio In: Apex. Studi storico-religiosi in onore di E. Montanari [Festschrift in honor of prof. Enrico Montanari], eds. Giovanni Casadio - Claudia Santi - Attilio Mastrocinque; in collaborazione con Leonardo Sacco - Valerio Severino. Roma: Edizioni Quasar: