PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS - Università degli Studi di Messina

of archetypes. We can say, that he was the representative of the so-called mythologist school of
modern religious studies. As Kerenyi puts in his preface to Dionysos, he favored
“differentiated thinking about the concrete realities of human life” in contrast to the so-called
“summary thinking” that represented for him the influence of Frazer and other
“phenomenologists”. My paper includes two main parts. In the first part I shall outline the
main points of Kerenyi's thinking from a methodological point of view. In the second part I
shall critically reflect on his views on the method of religious studies precisely from the
viewpoint of his analytical method. The paper will, however, address methodological issues.
Although my paper concentrates on Kerenyi's views on methodology, its main aim is to
investigate the nature of the method of religious studies from a more general point of view.
Annika Hvithamar, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
Translating Orthodoxy: The Danish Orthodox Congregations
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Wed 16 th , 9.00, Classroom 13
During the 20th century Russian Orthodox diaspora churches spread all overEurope. In the first
generations these churches were diaspora churchescomprised of ethnic Russians and their
descendants. But gradually a new kindof Orthodox Christians has appeared. These have no
affiliation to Russia,and wish to root Orthodox Christianity in their local, national
environment.The presentation will focus on how the Russian Orthodox tradition today
istranslated into a Danish, predominantly Lutheran context. What happens to Orthodox
Christianity when it is stripped of its national context? How isDanish religious culture
incorporated into the Orthodox congregations? Andis anything lost in translation?
Giovanni Ibba, University of Torino, Italy
Gli scritti Mosaici ed Enochici nel Giudaismo tra il II secolo a. C. ed il I d.C.
Wed 16 th , 11.20, Classroom 12
Since II century B.C. to I A.C. Judaism showed many trends, that took one's own convinction
their doctrinal conviction from different interpretations on authoritative texts, like Torah,
Nevihim, and Ketuvim. Besides, there were also communities where these books were
considered submit to not as important as those included into enochich corpus (Book of
Whatchers, Book of Astronomy etc), especially from the synthesis of the Essenism between
mosaic and enochich traditions. A fundamental aspect within Judaic communities in this period
is the interpretation on of the texts, in particular of mosaic tradition. The interpreter is an
authoritative figure within a community; like Jesus within some Judaism.
Tue 15 th , 11.40, Classroom 9
Pietro Ioly Zorattini, University of Udine, Italy
Conversioni di acattolici nella Venezia dell’Ottocento.
In una mia precedente ricerca, I nomi degli altri. Conversioni a Venezia e nel Friuli Veneto in
età moderna (Firenze, Olschki 2008), ho analizzato, attraverso la documentazione archivistica