Francesca Cadeddu

Affiliated researcher

cadeddu@fscire.it

Research interests

Religious illiteracy in Italy and Europe.

Education, academic and professional experience

In November 2020, she began her position as a fixed-term researcher in contemporary history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

She currently serves as Executive Director of RESILIENCE, Treasurer of the European Academy of Religion, and Fellow of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London.

She earned her PhD in Europe and the Americas: Constitutions, Doctrines, and Political Institutions at the University of Bologna with a dissertation entitled Democrazia e cattolicesimo negli Stati Uniti. La libertà di religione e il pensiero di John Courtney Murray.

Featured publications

Full list of publications available HERE.

Articles

F. Cadeddu, Riforme, opportunità e diseguaglianze. Quarant’anni di politiche educative statunitensi, in «Annali di storia dell’educazione e delle istituzioni scolastiche», 31/2024, pp. 448-456.

Edited volumes

F. Cadeddu, A. Melloni, F. Ruozzi (eds.), Faith and Pestilence. Paradigms and Historical, Theological, Hermeneutical Issues, Vandenoeck&Ruprecht, 2024.

F. Cadeddu (ed.), Religion and Diversity: Fifth Annual Conference 2022, De Gruyter, 2024.

Chapter in books

F. Cadeddu, Concilium Danecastrense. The Epistle from the elders of Balby, in A. Melloni and G. Braghi (eds.), Corpus Christianorum Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Generaliumque Decreta, vol. 6.2, Synods of the Churches of and after the Reformation. Ecclesia semper reformanda (17th-19th Centuries), Turnhout, Brepols, 2025.

F. Cadeddu, Analfabetismo religioso: dai dati storici ai costi sociali, in L’analfabetismo biblico e religioso. Una questione sociale, a cura di Brunetto Salvarani, Bologna, EDB, 2022, pp. 19-42.

F. Cadeddu, Dagli studi sull’analfabetismo religioso alle buone pratiche, in Elisa Ferrari, Alessandra Landini e Laura Righi (eds.), Pace fra le culture, Fscire Press, Bologna, 2022, pp. 49-52

F. Cadeddu, John Courtney Murray, in R.W. Lovin, J. Mauldin (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 181-197.

M. Büchler, S. Riegert, F. Alpi, F. Cadeddu, Towards Big Religious Data: RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure for Data on Religion in the Digital Age, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Digital Tools & Uses Congress, (DTUC ’20) New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 2020, pp. 1-5, Doi: 10.1145/3423603.3424007.

Conferences, seminars and workshops (selection)

January 16, 2020, Schools, society and scholarship. Challenges for religious literacy in Europe, conference Religious literacy: Challenges for Today, The Loyola Institute, Trinity College Dublin.

January 3–5, 2020, Going to the cinema? The Catholic film policy in New York, with F. Ruozzi in the panel Catholic Mass Media and New York Modernity, American Catholic Historical Association, 100th Annual Conference, New York.

June 6–8, 2019, The Alliance between Research and Journalism, panel Media in the Spotlight: Peace, People, and Planet Demand a Robust Religious Literacy, G20 Interfaith Forum 2019, Tokyo.

January 20–22, 2019, Peritus Quidam: John Courtey Murray, SJ at the Second Vatican Council, conference Religious Voices, Human Dignity and the Making of Modern Human Rights Law, Pontificia Università Antonianum, International Center for Law and Religion Studies of Brigham Young University Law School, Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, Oxford Society of Law and Religion, Rome.

January 10–11, 2019, Fighting Religious Illiteracy with Knowledge. Presentation of Pars, Portale di formazione e informazione per il contrasto dell’analfabetismo religioso, ReIReS Workshop The presence and the quality of the religious history in the school texts for the high school and in the most important texts of general history edited in the last three decades, ISEM-CNR, Rome.

November 29, 2018, Metodismo e movimento per il suffragio femminile, Convegno internazionale Metodismo, giustizia sociale, diritti. Uno sguardo tra Europa, Africa ed USA, Centro di Documentazione Metodista and Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Sapienza – Università di Roma, Rome.

November 16, 2017, John Courtney Murray: Jesuit, Churchman, and Public Theologian, conference John Courtney Murray Today. Reflections in the Fiftieth Anniversary Year of his Death, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Office of the President, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

September 11–15, 2017, Religious literacy in Italy: meaning and context, Seminario di studi internazionale, Religious Literacy International Network, Hawarden, UK.

November 29–December 2, 2016, Migrants and interethnic relations: successes and failures of such initiatives in the Italian education system, International Seminar Education, Civicism and Inter-Ethnic Consent: Interaction of Society and School, Moscow, Russia.