A great and difficult work, it has been called “a blind spot in Picasso scholarship.” What does it really have to do with religion?
Massimo Introvigne
Le richieste di asilo di membri della Chiesa di Dio Onnipotente. 2. Motivi per la concessione o il rifiuto dell’asilo
Narrative diverse portano a decisioni diverse. Occorre esaminarle una per una. Partiamo dall’esistenza di una persecuzione religiosa in Cina.
Church of Almighty God Refugees Asylum Claims. 2. Reasons for Granting or Denying Asylum
Different narratives lead to different decisions. They should be examined one by one. We start with the existence of a religious persecution in China.
Torino è davvero “città magica”? 4. La leggenda della “città del Diavolo”
La leggenda di Torino come “città del Diavolo” deriva da memorie ottocentesche ma anche da uno scherzo goliardico della fine degli anni 1960.
Is Turin Really “the City of Magic”? 4. The Legend of the “City of the Devil”
The legend of Turin as the “city of the Devil” derives from nineteenth-century memories but also from a goliardic prank of the late 1960s.
Le richieste di asilo di membri della Chiesa di Dio Onnipotente. 1. Le informazioni sul Paese di origine (COI)
Il concetto di COI è di per sé ambiguo. Tuttavia, le COI più recenti che riguardano la Chiesa di Dio Onnipotente sono spesso migliori e più affidabili di quelle più vecchie.
Church of Almighty God Refugees Asylum Claims. 1. The Country of Origin Information (COI)
The notion of COI is in itself ambiguous. However, the more recent COI dealing with The Church of Almighty God are often better and more reliable than the older ones.
Torino è davvero “città magica”? 3. Il mito valdese e la religiosità alternativa
Anche se non c’entra con la magia, la tolleranza risorgimentale per religioni diverse dalla cattolica a Torino ha contribuito a creare il mito della “capitale delle spiritualità alternative”.
Is Turin Really “the City of Magic”? 3. The Waldensian Myth and the Alternatives to Catholicism
Although it has nothing to do with magic, the 19th-century tolerance for religions other than the Catholic Church in Turin helped create the myth of the “capital of alternative spiritualities”
Torino è davvero “città magica”? 2. Gli spiriti a Torino
Nell’Ottocento Torino è conquistata – per un certo periodo, più di altre città italiane – dalla moda dello spiritismo.
Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.