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Religious Experience, Socialisation and Gender Differences among Millennials: Recent studies on young people conducted at national and international levels have shown an increasing trend towards individualised and plural forms of religious involvement inside and outside the institutional contexts of churches and religious groups. In the last decades, the debate on religious socialisation has been intertwined with the changing gender roles and stereotypes and with the increased level of women's emancipation in society. This paper focuses on young people, their religious experience and their relationships with adults, paying specific attention to the Millennial generation (women and men between the ages of 20 and 36). The main hypothesis is to verify the persistence and breadth of a diversification between women and men, especially among young Millennials, in relation to specific dimensions of the religious experience (belonging and practices) and to religious socialisation. With regard to gender differences, the paper will reflect on the role played by women/mothers in the intergenerational transmission of religious beliefs and on how religious socialisation is still linked to the family and to religious figures or associations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Millennials and Religion: Divergence or Continuity Compared to the Generation of their Parents? This paper deals with the relationship between Millenniab and religion with the aim at determining whether this generation diverges from that of their mothers and fathers cdso from the point of view of religious identity and experience. The paper is divided into two parts: a literature review on the theme of generational differences in religious identity and experience with reference to the Italian context and a second part dedicated to data analysis. We analyse approximately, joo questionnaires on this issue completed by students attending the University of Milano-Bicocca. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses some aspects of democratization, modernization and transition processes in the Croatian society. Focusing on the contemporary social situation the authors attempt to assess the achievements of the transitions in Croatia. In this endeavour the past was reviewed from the x ix, h century onward and many controversies were found which are relevant to current social divisions and impede the completion of the transition process. Relying on domestic and foreign theorists of modernization, the phenomenon of post-socialism is debated as it emerges in Croatia. Some divisions within Croatian society still clearly present are detected, such as the trauma of war, the problem of work ethics, nontransparent privatization, mistrust of institutions, and the unreached habitus of the two-way responsibility of democracy. The paper concludes with a recommendation on the necessity of a change in mentality, respectively social consciousness, but abo within social structures at the level of practical life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A conference paper on international human rights is presented. The paper compares laws and self-regulatory complaints systems used by the media to prevent hate speech and protect against invasions of privacy and attacks on reputation. According to the paper, self-regulation by historians should serve to articulate the values and goals of historiography.

This paper suggests comparative analysis of attitudes toward religious freedom among young people in two different political and religious contexts in Belarus and Lithuania. The aim of the research is to understand whether belonging to religious, non-religious, and religious in general sense groups as well as to majority/ minority religions together with the religiosity of young people have a significant influence on considering the value of religious freedom. The paper brings evidence that religiosity, satisfaction with the state of democracy, and secularism pattern predict the religious freedom attitudes, while belonging to majority/minority religious groups does not contribute to the different perception of religious freedom in Belarus and Lithuania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper addresses some issues with regard to isis as part of an evolved Radical Political Islam and its effects on the Middle East region and perhaps also on the Israel-Palestine conflict. The paper looks at how the economic, social and political frustration of younger groups, men and women, in the Arab world with the help of social media catapulted the Middle East into a region of turmoil, divisiveness and chaos without a solution in sight. The paper looks at the causes of this situation highlighting the long search for an identity by the Islamic world and how the new phenomenon of isis could also implicate the Israel-Palestine conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a carrying on of the theme examined in (Bazzani, Freguglia 2013) where we discuss a proposal of studying of essential structural aspects of Darwinian Evolution Theory. Also in this case we apply a mathematical ago-antagonist theory inspired by Y. Cherruault's ideas (Cherruault 1998). In the present paper we consider the network structure of genes activity and its dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a recent paper, Michel and Pirillo prove that there are 24 dinucleotide circular codes of maximum cardinality over an alphabet of cardinality 4. In this paper we find the exact number of dinucleotide circular codes of maximum cardinality for any given (finite) cardinality of the alphabet. Moreover, we describe the structure of these codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A conference paper is presented from the historical conference entitled The Significance of History for Politics and Culture. It discusses the postmodern concept of a narrative as it can be applied to history and the reporting of ongoing political events in the international media. The use of the idea of a narrative in journalism is discussed and then related to ideas of political, religious, and social identity.

A conference paper is presented which was written for the 2010 conference the International Congress of Historical Sciences about the role in modern history of the global financial crisis. It discusses whether the period from 1989 to 2008 can be viewed as a definable era, the notion of learning from history, and the global financial crisis viewed as a crisis for capitalism.

While Weber implicates the body in his descriptions of charismatic qualities and actions it is surprisingly underdeveloped in his own work on the sociology of religion. However, perhaps more surprising is that, while a range of classic sociological theory has been considerably recast in light of the generally agreed 'reemergence of the body' in sociological thinking over the past two decades, the concept of charisma has, been largely neglected. This paper starts to redress these lacunae by revisiting several key characteristics of Weber's sociology of charisma that strongly imply embodiment. It argues that an embodied perspective of charisma is a significant channel of inter-corporeal communication through which (religious) leadership and forms of continuity and change are Enacted and maintained over time. In illustrating this argument the paper draws on empirical illustrations taken from the examples of Jigoro Kano (1860-1938: Founder of Judo), Morihei Ueshiba: 1883-1969: Founder of Aikido) and Bruce Lee (1940-1973: Founder of Jeet Kune Do). These have been selected for the varied insights each has to offer the idea of embodied charisma. In conclusion the paper reflects on how a more developed idea of embodied charisma might be useful in providing a renewed focus for the sociological study of established, new and also what we refer to as emerging 'secular' religions of which martial culture is a prime example. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses both the concepts and phenomena of «medianity» and «mediaticità» relating to the Brazilian Spiritism, from an anthropological and interpretative perspective. The terminological meaning of «medianity» and «mediaticità» is here described through an interpretation which is as close as possible to the «native» or Dottrinary vision. The aim of this paper is to show the topicality of the Espirita belief with regards to the current religious phenomena, and relating to the socio-anthropological research methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the socio-political and religious dialectics of spirituality in post-communist Romania. Starting from a statistic evaluation of the distribution and subdivision of the Churches on Romanian territory, the paper studies the religious factor as a systemic element for understanding the deep relationship between people and "national belonging", understood as a relevant key of social self-representation. The close link with the historic-religious past of Romanians, partly obscured during the years of socialism, re-emerges after the collapse of the communist regime through specific forms: the monastic life, studies on the lives of saints, the history of Romanian Orthodoxy, are used for strengthening the bond between people and tradition in a new context, coinciding with the entry into the European Union. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The word and concept of life style have by now entered the language and the interpretive models of the Social Sciences, in particular in the researches about the condition of the young. The aim of this paper is to verify the utility of the concept of life style, not only in relation to standing, social classes and consumer goods, but also as a project of identity building of a group or a subculture. The aim is also to verify whether the concept of life style could represent an analytical category of interest even for the analysis of religious phenomena. In this context, a life style is a set of practices to which an individual gives unitary meaning, a distinctive model shared inside a collectivity. A model that does not have its genesis either in a pre-existing cognitive-value frame or in a pre-determined socio-structural condition. This paper examines life style forms in new religious movements, big happenings, Catholic militancy or participation, new spiritualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the dominant moral and sensorial landscape of public Islam in contemporary Cairo, the aim of my paper is to draw attention to the quiet inflections of a non-dominant and apparently non-political form of Islam such as Sufism, through the emotive, bodily and sensorial styles of its adepts. The paper proposes some examples of how this alternative symbolic and sensorial dimension of faith articulates practices and builds alternative paths in the politics of everyday's actions. The paper therefore leaves behind,just as my interlocutors have suggested me to do, the power of words and of discourse, because instruments that reproduce and are proper to the noisy and dominant Islam of the cassette-preachers of the da'wa, pointing out instead to the non-verbal dimensions of body and of emotions. In fact this silent presence of Sufis in the public sphere will be read as a politics of positioning within the religious panorama of contemporary Cairo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the identity-construction processes that take place in the Seminaries of Theological Formation in Argentine, focusing at the tensions between the ideal of self and, on the other hand, the partial realization of that ideal. In the relationship with the religious 'other', the social actors experience their own prejudices. This kind of experience is a part of the identity-construction processes, and the social actor must negotiate this part with the ideal of self. In 2005, the Seminary took place in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. This area has been considered as a refuge for terrorist organizations. The paper analyzes the tension between this 'external' look and the point of view of the people who live there, that was expressed in the Seminary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on what Turkish sociologist Hakan Yavuz called the «internal migration» of Islam during the years when public religious activities were severely restricted by the Kemalist regime. Religion survived by becoming spirituality, both in families and in small groups. While the most studied forms of Turkish spirituality include various Sufi brotherhoods, the paper argues that the circles of 'readers' of the Epistles of Light of Kurdish-born mystic Bediuzzaman Said Nursi were at least as important, despite the fact that Nursi himself spent the years of the Kemalist limitation of religious activities forcibly confined to small villages and even later did not often speak in public. Eventually, after Nursi's death in 1960 and the religious deregulation in the new Turkish democracy,from the circles of readers of Nursi's works several branches of a Nur movement grew up. They now include several million members both in Turkey and abroad, and are a key feature of Turkey's contemporary religious scenario. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cu Doamne ajuta. Religious Action and the Transfiguration of Politics in the Orthodox Moldova. This paper discusses an ethnographic research carried out in the Republic of Moldova, within an eparhia of the Moldovan Orthodox Church. In this local scenario of insecurity and political disenchantment, Orthodox Churches appear as social protagonists and their observation as a possible pivotal point in the analysis of this post-Soviet region, politically and religiously divided between Bucharest and Moscow. The role played here by the resurgence of religion will be therefore briefly explored both as an individual and social instrument of adaptation and as a governmental instrument, through three different lenses: ritual, identity, politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Youth and Social Capital: The Religiosity Horizons · This paper aims to study the relationship between religion and social capital considering young people living in Naples. The article discusses how the combination of different levels of social capital and religiosity can help us to identify profiles of religiosity. Technique of multivariate analysis was used to reach these scopes. The results compare the level of conceptualisation and the level of religious practices detected in the profiles, allowing to highlight the continuity and discontinuity in practices, identification and positioning of the young people in the local sample with respect to religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Religion and Innovation Society The paper analyses the relationship between young people, religion, and innovation. Our main assumption is that religious traditions are embedded in the digital society, too. Findings underline a relationship between religion and the digital society: results show that digital innovation modifies the religious practice among youths. The clash between tradition and innovation is an empirical evidence. The data were collected through the survey «Young People and Religion», promoted by the University of Milano-Bicocca and refer to a non-probabilistic sample of students (n -- i 86)from the University of Cassino and Southern Latium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Religious Experience of Roman Catholics In the present paper the Author discusses the lived religion of 29 Roman Catholics resident in Rome. The analysis focuses, in particular, on the interviewees' perceptions of God, good-evil Furthermore, attention was paid to the socialisation and the link between family and religion, the conception of sin, the beliefs about Hell-Purgatory-Paradise, eternal life. These points were foregrounded because characteristic of the entire experience of belief and because, in some ways, they manage to account for mutations in religion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper the authors describe the atmosphere in Croatia after the Homeland War and the role that Vukovar, as a place of tremendous suffering, has in the Croatian collective consciousness and memory. In the first part, they present the theoretical framework of the reconciliation process, and thematise a phenomenon such as memory and forgiveness as the most important notions in this process. In the second part, they examine the role that Catholic Church in Croatia had in the reconciliation. As they argue, this role was mainly positive: Church in Croatia always encouraged forgiveness and reconciliation but also tried to insert it in the real context of ordinary life. Today however the theme on reconciliation in Croatia it seems that it is not in focus any more (there is a lack of more updated research on the topic) which is both promising and preoccupying: promising because it gives hope that citizens are no more clinging to the past andpreoccupying because the experience taught us that past, if not purified, always returns back even in a harsher way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Evidence of Agapic Interactions The article proposes a visual empirical research of the Jubilee of Mercy announced by Pope Fran-cis. In particular, the paper illustrates the way in which the empirical research was organised on the Days dedicated to illness and disability. Visual analysis focuses attention on micro-relational dynamics, on gestures, on the meta-communicative elements captured between the jubilant and those around them. It emerges that the actions and interactions of thejubilants are configured as agapic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By means of a hermeneutic approach that revisits Émile Durkheim and sets his work within the theoretical framework of cosmopolitanism, our article aims to provide scholars and readers with new arguments to support the ever pertinence of this 20th century intellectual. In our paper, through a new and original analysis of his work, or at least the part which rejects the vision of a conservative Durkheim, we re-evaluate from a cosmopolitan standpoint, the scholar's contribution to the interpretation of a world open to globalisation processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We here present some results of a wider research about the representation of sexuality on the Italian Catholic press. Specifically, the paper analyses four magazines, different for editorial characteristics and ethical approach: to stratify the phenomenon we used the typology proposed by Garelli (1991), with the goal to test it and to determine whether the four magazines express actually different conceptions on the topic of sexuality, whether there are instead convergences and whether the representations of sexuality on the Catholic press are congruent with the official positions promoted by the Holy See in its documents. To achieve our purpose, we adopted a Foucaltian perspective (1976) assuming that, in the Catholic propaganda, sex is not only the object of taboos, prohibitions and complaints, but is also framed in a positive discourse that highlights some of its attributes, components and contexts: in particular, sex is dislodged from its biological value to confer it an higher meaning tied to the conditions of its lawful exercise, namely a stable heterosexual relationship within marriage. From our empirical analysis emerged that the four magazines express aligned positions, even if with some relevant differences that reflect, in the way they speak about sexuality, the pluralism within the Catholic associationism identified by Garelli. The official Magisterium is embedded in substance, but declined according to different accents and sensitivities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the relationship between interreligious dialogue, gender and generational change. Gender and generational changes are challenging religious institutions and traditional ways to worship and express one's faith. Recent studies have shown that there is a strong connection between social change -- such as the impact of ICTS, globalisation, increased intercultural and transcultural interaction and exchange, migration processes -- and religious identities. Recent literature has overall revealed a great complexity and often contradiction in late modern negotiations of religion and secularism by girls and women, and a range of possibilities for change. Based on these premises, this article explores the role played by interfaith dialogue in promoting gender equality and empowering women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a conceptualisation of the main modalities of historical consciousness in Mexican historiography during the nineteenth century. These modalities are based on the analysis of different overarching historical narratives that were intended to produce a new national identity after the War of Independence (1810-1821). These narratives disclose different notions about the utility of historical knowledge and the relationship between past and present. Consequently, in the first place it is presented a brief discussion of the interaction between the concepts of historical consciousness and national identity. Secondly a succinct historical background of the Colonial period is provided. Finally, through the examination of specific historical works and authors, the three modalities of historical consciousness that have been identified are presented; the past as will, the past as experience and the past as memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes an anthropological reflection on the connection between social inequality and Roma/ Gypsies’ religious experience in Italy, focusing on religious practices between Orthodox Christians and Muslims Roma groups living in marginal conditions. The essay, finally, refers to the way in which the Italian state does not consider the religious practices of the Roma and the issue of human rights, stressing that the religious dimension is totally ignored at government level because of harmful categorization and discriminatory attitude. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]