Introduction to the Special Issue

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Shared Religious Places: Insights from Southeast Europe

Authors

  • Gianfranco Bria University of Rome ‘Sapienza’
  • Giuseppe Tateo ICUB – University of Bucharest

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.29307

Keywords:

Multidisciplinary Approaches, Shared Religious Places, Southeast Europe

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Author Biographies

  • Gianfranco Bria, University of Rome ‘Sapienza’

    Gianfranco Bria is Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor of Islamic Law at Sapienza University of Rome, Adjunct Professor of Islam and Gender at Roma 3 University and associate member of the Cetobac (CNRS - EHESS) in Paris. His research deals with Islamic authority, sainthood and charisma in the Balkans, the embodiment experiences of daily-lived Islam (practices, beliefs and rituals) and Muslims history in southern-eastern Europe since the late modern Ottoman Empire.

  • Giuseppe Tateo, ICUB – University of Bucharest

    Giuseppe Tateo is postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest and researcher at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (Trento, Italy). After earning his PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, he taught at Charles University (Prague) and at Riga Stradins University and was a post-doctoral researcher in Bucharest, Prague and Leipzig. His current research interests focus on the link between political authority and religious architecture in post-socialist Europe with a specific focus on Romania.

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Published

2024-06-24

How to Cite

Bria, G. ., & Tateo, G. (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Shared Religious Places: Insights from Southeast Europe. Fieldwork in Religion, 19(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.29307