All’Università di Torino sono titolare dei seguenti insegnamenti / At the University of Turin I teach the following courses:
Politics and Religion (English – 6 ECTS Credits) – AGIC Master Course
Politica Comparata (Italian – 9 ECTS Credits)
Scienza Politica (Italian – 6 out of 12 ECTS Credits)
Sono inoltre docente in / I am also a member of the faculty of
International PhD in Religion, Culture and Public Life (RECUPL)
ISPI Master in International Cooperation
Unito Master in Scienze Religiose e Mediazione Interculturale (SRIM)
The Following is the syllabus of my Politics and Religion course:
Week 1: Religion, Secularization and Politics:
– Russell Sandberg and Norman Doe. 2007. “Church-;State Relations in Europe”. Religion Compass 1/5: 561-;578
– Jeffrey Haynes. 1997. “Religion, secularisation and politics: A postmodern conspectus”. Third World Quarterly 18 (4): 709-;28.
– Ahmet T. Kuru. 2007. “Passive and Assertive Secularism: Historical Conditions, Ideological struggles, and State Policies toward Religion”. World Politics 59 (4): 568-;94.
– Samuel P. Huntington. 1993. “The Clash of Civilizations?” Foreign Affairs, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 22-49
Week 2: Religion, Democracy and Democratization:
– Luca Ozzano. 2013. “Introduction: Religion, Democracy and Civil Liberties”. European Political Science 12 (2), pp. 147-153.
– Alfred C. Stepan. 2000. “Religion, Democracy, and the ‘Twin Tolerations’”. Journal of Democracy 11 (4): 37-;57.
– Steve Bruce. 2004. “Did Protestantism Create Democracy?” Democratization 11(4): 3-;20.
– Mirjam Künkler and Julia Leininger. 2009. “The Multi-Faceted Role of Religious Actors in
Democratization Processes: Empirical Evidence from Five Young Democracies”.
Democratization, 16(6): 1058-;1092.
Week 3: Religion, Groups, and Political Parties:
– Luca Ozzano and Francesco Cavatorta. 2013. “Introduction: religiously oriented parties and democratization”. Democratization 20 (5): 799-;806.
– Luca Ozzano. 2013. “The many faces of the political god: a typology of religiously oriented parties”. Democratization 20 (5): 807-;30.
– Manfred Brocker and Mirjam Kunkler. 2013. “Religious Parties: Revisiting the Inclusion Moderation Hypothesis”. Party Politics, 13(2): 171-;186.
Week 4: Case studies (1):
– Sultan Tepe and Ajar Chekirova. 2022. “Faith in Nations: The Populist Discourse of Erdogan, Modi, and Putin”, Religions Vol. 13, No. 5.
– Jeffrey Haynes. 2020. “Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA”, Religions 11
– Guy Ben-Porat, Dani Filc, Ahmet Erdi Ozturk and Luca Ozzano. “Populism, Religion, and Family Values Policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey”, Mediterranean Politics
– Ahmet Erdi Öztürk. 2019. “An alternative reading of religion and authoritarianism: the new logic between religion and state in the AKP’s New Turkey”. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 19 (1): 79-;98.
Week 5: Case Studies (2):
– Lyman A. Kellstedt and James L. Guth. 2021. “Religious Voting in the 2020 Presidential Election: Testing Alternative Theories. Politics and Religion Journal 15 (2): 257-281.
– Claudia Zilla. 2018. “Evangelicals and politics in Latin America: religious switching and its growing political relevance” (SWP Comment, 46/2018). Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik.
– Paul Antonopoulos, Daniel França Ribeiro and Drew Cottle. 2020. “Liberation Theology to Evangelicalism: The Rise of Bolsonaro and the Conservative Evangelical Advance in Post-Colonial Brazil”. Postcolonial Interventions 5(2): 240-281.
– Giorgio Shani. 2021. “Towards a Hindu Rashtra: Hindutva, religion, and nationalism in India”, Religion, State & Society, 49:3, 264-280
Week 6: Case Studies (3):
– Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone. 2013. “Moderation through exclusion? The journey of the Tunisian Ennahda from fundamentalist to conservative party”. Democratization 20(5): 857-;875.
– Daniel Egiegba Agbiboa. 2013. “No retreat, no surrender: Understanding the religious terrorism of Boko Haram in Nigeria”, African Study Monographs, 34 (2): 65-;84.
– Gaziza Shakhanova and Petr Kratochvil. 2022. The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State?, Politics and Religion 15, 114-141