Italian Doctoral School of Religious Studies

Natascia Villani is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University Suor Orsola Benincasa. She is a member of numerous national and international research centers, as well as a member of band journals in the area of political philosophy. Her research focuses on medieval and Renaissance political thought, scholasticism, Catholic thought and, in recent years, […]

Giovanni Vian is Full Professor of History of Christianity at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. In his research activity he studies the dynamics of the history of Christianity from 1800 to the present day. He has explored the modernist crisis and its anti-modernist reaction, the history of the papacy from the 20th–21st century, pivotal moments […]

Francesco Leccese is Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies at the University of Calabria. He is a specialist of the Muslim civilization with a focus on contemporary Sufism in the Arab world and in the West. He has written two monographs Sufi Network. Le confraternite islamiche tra globalizzazione e tradizione (2017) and Il santo sufi della […]

Francesca Tarocco is a Full Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chinese Religions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Visiting Professor of Buddhist Cultures at New York University, Shanghai. Tarocco was also Leverhulme Trust Fellow at the University of Manchester and Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies. Tarocco’s research interests are […]

Patrizia Spallino is Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Palermo and a member of many important scientific institutions.She has taught in Naples and Venice and has written several essays and articles related to her research interests, which include Islamic philosophy, mysticism, and the relationship between Eastern and Western thought. Her latest […]