DR Fabio Alberto AMBROSIO
Teaching and Research Positions
- 2016–present: Luxembourg School of Religion & Society (LSRS)
- Director of the “Fashion & Religions” research team within the LSRS Laboratory.
- Director of the research project “Clothing the Invisible: Religion Dressed,” Collège des Bernardins/Luxembourg School of Religion & Society, in collaboration with Prof. Nathalie Roelens (University of Luxembourg).
- Professor of Theology and History of Religions.
- 2019–2021: Co-director of the research seminar at LSRS and the Collège des Bernardins, jointly directed with Prof. Nathalie Roelens (University of Luxembourg).
- 2019–2021: Co-director of research at the Collège des Bernardins for the “Women & Religions” seminar, jointly directed with Prof. Valentine Zuber and Jacques Huntzinger.
- 2016–2018: Co-director of the “Religious Freedom in the Mediterranean” seminar at the Collège des Bernardins.
Degrees and Academic Training
- 2015: Canonical Licentiate in Ecumenical Theology and Interreligious Dialogue (Licentia docendi, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas).
- 2013: Habilitation to Supervise Research (HdR), University of Lorraine, Metz Campus, CAEPR.
- 2007: Doctorate in Modern and Contemporary History, Paris IV-Sorbonne University (Sorbonne).
- 2002: Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Catholic Theology, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg.
- 2002: Maîtrise in Turkish Language and Civilizations, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg.
- 2001: University Diploma in Persian Language and Civilizations (DEUP, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg). Licence in Turkish (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg).
- 2000: DEUG in Turkish Language and Civilizations, Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg.
- 1998: Bachelor’s Degree in Theology from the Dominican Academic Theological Studium of Bologna, Saint Dominic Section, affiliated with the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
- 1995: Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from the Dominican Academic Theological Studium of Bologna, Saint Dominic Section, affiliated with the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.
- 1990: Italian State Secondary-School Diploma from the Istituto Tecnico Nicola Moreschi, Milan (Italy).
Publications
Monographs
- Moda e religioni. Vestire il sacro, sacralizzare il look, Milan, Mondadori Bruno, 2022, 170 p.
- Théologie de la Mode. Dieu trois fois tailleur, French trans. by R. Sctrick, Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2021, 118 p. (French version of Dio tre volte sarto. Moda, chiesa e teologia, no. 4).
- Eschatologie du quotidien. Le « Jugement dernier » de Maxim Kantor, French trans. by R. Sctrick, Milan, Mimésis Éditions, 2021, 159 p. (French version of Escatologia quotidiana. The Last Judgment di Maxim Kantor, no. 5).
- Dio tre volte sarto. Moda, chiesa e teologia, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2020, 172 p.
- Escatologia quotidiana. The Last Judgment di Maxim Kantor, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2020, 146 p.
- Rūmī and Whirling dervishes, A Forum for Theology in the World (vol. 6 No 2/2019), Adelaide, ATF Theology, 2019, 113 p.
- Pouvoir et secret. L’initiation dans la confrérie bektaşîe, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2017.
- Corps mystique et mystique du corps : Épître aux Colossiens et soufisme anatolien. Essai comparatiste, Paris, Geuthner, 2017.
- Quand les soufis parlent aux chrétiens. A la rencontre avec un islam fraternel, Paris, Bayard, 2016, 120 p.
- L’islam in Turchia, Rome, Carocci editore, 2015.
- Soufisme et christianisme. Entre histoire et mystique, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013, 239 p.
- Soufis à Istanbul : hier, aujourd’hui : des hommes et des lieux, XIIIe–XXIe siècle, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2014, 207 p.
- Storia, antropologia, mistica, Rome, Carocci editore, 2011, 190 p. (Turkish version: Istanbul, 2012).
- Vie d’un derviche tourneur. Doctrine et rituels du soufisme au XVIIe siècle, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2010, 405 p. (Turkish version, Istanbul, 2013; Italian version, 2014; Arabic version, Dar al-Mashreq, Lebanon, 2015).
Edited Volumes
- Art abstrait et spiritualité. Kim En Joong entre Orient et Occident. Conference proceedings, in preparation.
- Femmes et religions en Méditerranée, with Valentine Zuber, Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2022, 358 p.
- Penser l’islam en Europe. Perspectives du Luxembourg et d’ailleurs (in collaboration with Laurent Mignon), Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2021, 300 p.
- Liberté de religion et de conviction en Méditerranée, with Valentine Zuber and Jacques Huntzinger, Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2021, 437 p.
- Divus Thomas, no. 54 (2009/3), La preghiera come tecnica. Una prospettiva orientale (with G. Cecere).
- Divus Thomas, no. 48 (2007/3), Il sufismo (with C. Saccone).
Books for a General Readership
- Inginocchiarsi, Riti del vivere series, Assisi, Cittadella Editore, 112 p.
- La messa di tutti, Bologna, EDB, Le Ispiere series, 2020, 112 p.
- Saisons intérieures. Croire à l’âge de l’incroyance, Paris, Éditions Empreintes Temps présents, 2020, 120 p.
- Sufismo, Milan, Editrice Bibliografica, 2018, 128 p.
- Un Dio Curioso, Rome, Castelvecchi Editore, 2018, 128 p.
- E’ brezza divina, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2015, 80 p.
- Lotta continua. Vangelo e stupore. Una lettura antropo-teologica delle parabole, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Editore, 2015, 140 p. French version: Une lutte sans merci. Actualité des paraboles, Paris, Empreintes, 2016, 136 p.
- Silenzio profetico. In ascolto mistico dell’islam, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2015, 60 p.
- La Confrérie de la danse sacrée. Les derviches tourneurs, Paris, Albin Michel, 2014.
- Danza coi Sufi. Un incontro con l’Islam mistico, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Editore, 2013, 144 p.
- Petite mystique du dialogue, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013, 102 p. (Italian version, Castelvecchi, 2014).
