The Digital Turn in Religious Studies

Research, Services, Infrastructures
ALBERTO MELLONI, FRANCESCA CADEDDU
Fscire Research and Papers 5
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2025

Paper € 80.00
ISBN: 9783847018940

​The volume presents the first research and methodological outcomes achieved by the ITSERR team, composed of researchers in the humanities and information technologies.

The adoption of new technological paradigms has recently shifted part of the scholarship on religions towards new research questions. Such a new condition stimulates scholarly curiosity, which needs—to be effective and fertile—matching with technological infrastructures and access to physical and digital sources and research means. ITSERR (Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE) is a research project launched in 2022 with the goal of enhancing RESILIENCE, the European research infrastructure for the study of religions.
Primary goal is to meet the evolving needs of its multidisciplinary scientific community and support the development of the national node of RESILIENCE. With the endorsement of new technological paradigms, the project is willing to play a pivotal role in enriching the diversity, quality, and innovation of knowledge produced by the community of scholars investigating religions.

Alberto Melloni is professor of History of the Christianity at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Secretary of the Fondazione per le scienze religiose (Bologna and Palermo).
He holds the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace at Sapienza University of Rome.

Francesca Cadeddu is assistant professor of Contemporary History at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, affiliated researcher at FSCIRE, and the executive director of RESILIENCE, the European Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies.