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DR Fabio Alberto AMBROSIO

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

  1. Moda e religioni. Vestire il sacro, sacralizzare il look, Milan, Mondadori Bruno, 2022, 170 p.
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. Dio tre volte sarto. Moda, chiesa e teologia, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2020, 172 p.
  5. Escatologia quotidiana. The Last Judgment di Maxim Kantor, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2020, 146 p.
  6. Rūmī and Whirling dervishes, A Forum for Theology in the World (vol. 6 No 2/2019), Adelaide, ATF Theology, 2019, 113 p.
  7. Pouvoir et secret. L’initiation dans la confrérie bektaşîe, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2017.
  8. Corps mystique et mystique du corps : Épître aux Colossiens et soufisme anatolien. Essai comparatiste, Paris, Geuthner, 2017.
  9. Quand les soufis parlent aux chrétiens. A la rencontre avec un islam fraternel, Paris, Bayard, 2016, 120 p.
  10. L’islam in Turchia, Rome, Carocci editore, 2015.
  11. Soufisme et christianisme. Entre histoire et mystique, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013, 239 p.
  12. Soufis à Istanbul : hier, aujourd’hui : des hommes et des lieux, XIIIe–XXIe siècle, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2014, 207 p.
  13. Storia, antropologia, mistica, Rome, Carocci editore, 2011, 190 p. (Turkish version: Istanbul, 2012).
  14. 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

  1. Art abstrait et spiritualité. Kim En Joong entre Orient et Occident. Conference proceedings, in preparation.
  2. Femmes et religions en Méditerranée, with Valentine Zuber, Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2022, 358 p.
  3. Penser l’islam en Europe. Perspectives du Luxembourg et d’ailleurs (in collaboration with Laurent Mignon), Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2021, 300 p.
  4. Liberté de religion et de conviction en Méditerranée, with Valentine Zuber and Jacques Huntzinger, Paris, Éditions Hermann, 2021, 437 p.
  5. Divus Thomas, no. 54 (2009/3), La preghiera come tecnica. Una prospettiva orientale (with G. Cecere).
  6. Divus Thomas, no. 48 (2007/3), Il sufismo (with C. Saccone).

Books for a General Readership

  1. Inginocchiarsi, Riti del vivere series, Assisi, Cittadella Editore, 112 p.
  2. La messa di tutti, Bologna, EDB, Le Ispiere series, 2020, 112 p.
  3. Saisons intérieures. Croire à l’âge de l’incroyance, Paris, Éditions Empreintes Temps présents, 2020, 120 p.
  4. Sufismo, Milan, Editrice Bibliografica, 2018, 128 p.
  5. Un Dio Curioso, Rome, Castelvecchi Editore, 2018, 128 p.
  6. E’ brezza divina, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2015, 80 p.
  7. 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.
  8. Silenzio profetico. In ascolto mistico dell’islam, Milan, Mimesis Editore, 2015, 60 p.
  9. La Confrérie de la danse sacrée. Les derviches tourneurs, Paris, Albin Michel, 2014.
  10. Danza coi Sufi. Un incontro con l’Islam mistico, Cinisello Balsamo, San Paolo Editore, 2013, 144 p.
  11. Petite mystique du dialogue, Paris, Les Éditions du Cerf, 2013, 102 p. (Italian version, Castelvecchi, 2014).