http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125191 The IERS project is funded by the EU Lifelong Learning Programme with around 400,000 euros. 2026-04-18T09:17:57Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125205 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125204 2014-06-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125203 2014-10-06T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125202 2014-10-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125201 2014-06-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125200 2014-11-18T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125199 2014-06-20T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125195 Maria Rizzuto. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy): "Religions play an important role in the transmission of the identity of migrant minorities in diasporic contexts. The English word migration derives from the Latin verb migrare, meaning “to move from one place to another”. The human migration is the permanent change of residence by an individual or group for different motivations (see section 3). This concept is related to the concept of diaspora. The concept of diaspora has long been used to refer to the Greeks in the Hellenic world and to the Jews after the fall of Jerusalem in the early 6th century BC. Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, scholars began to use it with reference to the African diaspora, and the use of the term was extended further in the following decades. The migrant groups may constitute a minority in the place of arrival: minority, a culturally, ethnically, religious distinct group that coexists but are subordinate to a more dominant group." 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125194 Maria Bombardieri. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy): "Fundamentalism is a term used to refer the faith in an absolutist and literalist manner. Fundamentalist interpretation entails a self‐conscious effort to avoid compromise, adaptation or critical reinterpretation of sacred scriptures of belief. For the first time, the term “Fundamentalism” was applied to a specific Protestant Christian experience that emerged as a response to the development of Christian “modernism” in the nineteenth century in the United States. By the 1970s the term began to be applied to movements of religious revival in a wide variety of contexts. When applied to non‐Christians, the term most denoted individuals and movements in the Islamic revival of the final quarter of the twentieth century in Muslim and Arab countries. The phrase “Muslim fundamentalism” or “Islamic fundamentalism” is widely used in both scholarly and journalistic literature. This module presents three cases of Fundamentalims: Christian Fundamentalism in America, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, finally Fundamentalism for Islam in Egypt. A special case is the one of Cultural Fundamentalism against Islam and multiculturalism in Norway. Nowadays some radical fundamentalist groups can approve and justify violent actions (jihad) against people opposing the religious fundamentalist view. This is the matrix of terrorist actions based on the religion. Terrorism is the systematic use of violence generating fear as a means to achieve socio-political aims. Minority groups and Muslims themselves are often a target of Islamic terrorism. " 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125193 Beatrice Nuti. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy): "This didactic module assumes a research approach according to which the body is also considered as a product of specific social, cultural, and historical contexts. This type of assumption doesn’t have a radical opposition with respect to truth claims of medical and biological sciences, but to move toward a comprehension of “body” inclusive of the diverse cultural heritage added and overwritten on the “natural body”, since a suspicious attitude toward what commonly is considered “natural body” by a specific community. Of course religion is a main element of every cultural heritage, each religious tradition has a particular understanding of the 'body' in a distinctive and unfamiliar way answering the questions “what’s the nature of body?”, “what’s its destiny after death?”, “How can individual reach spiritual states through the body condition?”, “what’s the ordinary religiously correct attitude toward body?”. Doing this, religions create a specific attitude to 'bodiliness' including relevant holy texts devoted to it, devotional body practices, clothes, food or sexual prescriptions." 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10366/125192 Giovanni Lapis. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy): "The term "Buddhism" refers to a religion that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices throughout Asia, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, who is commonly known as the Buddha. "Buddha" is a Sanskrit word meaning "the awakened one" or "the enlightened one". According to Buddhist tradition, Siddhartha Gautama, after a period of asceticism and meditations, "awakened" and discovered the Truth or Law of the Things (Dharma) and started preaching it. In fact, Buddhists tend to identify themselves as the "followers of Dharma". The fundamental doctrinal core of Buddhism, virtually common to any denomination, is a path towards the elimination of ignorance and craving, in order to obtain a blissful state, free from any kind of suffering, called Nirvana. Buddhism has played a central role in the spiritual, cultural, and social life of Asia, and during the 20th century it spread to the West." 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z