#SemioPills 8 — Francesco Galofaro on Religion in the time of Coronavirus
Channel: NeMoSanctI - New Models of Sanctity in Italy
Date: 16/05/2020

#Semiopills — NeMoSanctI interviews the most prominent scholars in the field of semiotics of religion

Episode 8 — Francesco Galofaro
May 13th, 2020, Turin

Video editing by Giuseppe Castiglione

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Francesco Galofaro joined NeMoSanctI as an expert in semiotic analysis. Within the project, he carries a semiotic study of process of canonization and hagiographic texts issued by the Catholic Church. He is currently focusing on Saint Pio of Pietrelcina.

Francesco Galofaro is a semiotician. He graduated in Communication Studies (MA) and holds a Ph.D. in Semiotics from the University of Bologna. His research focuses on ethnosemiotics, epistemology, Information Retrieval, and Morphodynamics, with particular regard to litanic structures.

He single-authored the books Eluana Englaro (Meltemi, 2009), dedicated to the political, scientific, and ethic debate on euthanasia, and Dopo Gerico. I nuovi spazi della psichiatria (After Jericho: the new psychiatric spaces, Esculapio, 2015), an ethnosemiotic analysis on psychiatric service design. He co-edited the books Morphogenesis and Individuation (with F. Montanari and A. Sarti, Springer, 2014) dedicated to Gilbert Simondon, and Il senso della tecnica. Saggi su Bachelard (The meaning of technology: essays on Bachelard, Esculapio, 2017, with Paola Donatiello and Gerardo Ienna).

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QUESTIONS / DOMANDE

- Did the pandemic change the relation between people and faith? 

- Will the virus lead Catholic church to innovate, trying to meet the restlessness of so many worshippers?

 - Will the triumph of technology endanger the social and community dimension of religious ethics?

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"NeMoSanctI: New Models of Sanctity in Italy (1960s-2000s) — A Semiotic Analysis of Norms, Causes of Saints, Hagiography, and Narratives" is a research project carried out at the University of Turin, Italy. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 757314).

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