Fate and Immortality in Asia: A Cross-cultural Perspective.
| Componente | Categoria |
|---|---|
| Leonardo Capezzone | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Alessandro Lupo | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Giuseppina Aurora Testa | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Flavia Cristaldi | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Ankica Kosic | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Lorenzo Verderame | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Mario Casari | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca |
| Componente | Qualifica | Struttura | Categoria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michela Clemente | Cultrice della Materia | Dip. Ist. It. di Studi Orientali - ISO | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Filippo Lunardo | Cultore della Materia | Dip. Ist. It. di Studi Orientali - ISO | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Francesco Maniscalco | Cultore della Materia | Dip. Ist. It. di Studi Orientali - ISO | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Chiara Luna Ghidini | RTDB | Dip. Asia Africa e Med., Univ. degli Studi di Napoli " L'Orientale" | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Carmen Simioli | Faculty Member | Università Ca' Foscari Venezia | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Fabrizio Pregadio | Guest Professor | Institute of Sinology, Friedrich Alexander University, Erlangen-Nuremberg | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
| Sacha Malgorzata | Habilitated Doctor | Inst. for the Study of Religions in Krakow, Jagiellonian University | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca |
Fate and Immortality in Asia: A Cross-cultural Perspective is an innovative multi-disciplinary project focused on the role played by fate in the quest of immortality and on issues related to immortality per se.
The project objectives consist in an analytical investigation of religious and socio-anthropological-psychological responses to the notions of fate and immortality, with reference to ancient Mesopotamia, Islam, India, Tibet, China, Japan, and in the synergic contextualization of those responses in a comparative, theoretical bridge-building framework geared to define an inclusively cogent and articulated blueprint to be utilized for further trans-disciplinary inquiries and dialectic epistemological exchange.
Immortality represents a compelling aspect of Asian religious and philosophical concerns surrounding death and spiritual salvation. Fate and immortality-related notions and beliefs generated doctrines, liturgies, specialized procedures, and praxes conceived and sanctioned according to the distinct Weltanschauung of the above-mentioned geo-cultural realities. They informed salvation propositions, healing narratives, and curative methods up to the present time. They also informed mythological provenience and contributed to mold national identities and collective images of the latter. Even so, a specific research on the proposed themes has never been carried out so far in a systematic way, neither in terms of individual cultural spheres nor in a comprehensive or comparative mode. In order to contribute to filling such a long-standing research gap, the research methodology envisaged to fulfill the project objectives will combine a dyadic architecture structured upon a historical-textual approach, implying the identification, analysis, and study of ad hoc primary textual sources, and an ethno-anthropological-psychological approach, implying fieldwork, case studies, and interviews with knowledgeable experts as well as Asian migrants in Rome.