11/07/2025 08:30
- 10:45
HALL: Lecture Hall 05
Chair:
De Lorenzo L.
Proponent:
Badini F.
Speaker:
Abaddi I.,
Badini F.,
Braghi G.,
Cargnelutti F.,
Dal Bo F.,
De Lorenzo L.,
Favaretto G.,
La Sala B.U.,
Mariotti G.,
Ravasco A.
This panel aims at conducting a broad, longue-durée historical-religious analysis of collapses and crises in the history of the Abrahamic religions, and the closely-related religious discourses of legitimation and delegitimation of power. The term "collapses" refers to sudden and traumatic changes that necessitate a revision of positions and impact the life of a society.
Actually, it's well known that the collapse is not a sudden event, but could be faced as a long term process segmented in several stages. This process could be divided in four main phases: a) before the collapses; b) during the collapses; c) immediately after the collapses; d) a distance from the collapses. It is not always suitable to classify the available sources on the basis of this chronological sequence. However, it is possible to identify key issues and problematic junctions within each of these.
The panel would like to consider the most important and well known collapses, which have significant theological-religious implications. Among the most relevant collapses, could be find, for example: the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem (70); the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476); the fall of Jerusalem (1099 and 1187); the fall of the Mongol Empire (1368); the fall of Constantinople (1453); the fall of Granada (1492); the fall of the Mughal Empire (1858); and the abolition of the Ottoman caliphate (1924). Also other collapses which are not too much studied today could be analyzed.
The aim of this panel is to investigate the "turmoil" and its phases, considering the phenomenon of the prophetism after collapses, and its relationship with the eschatology. The reception and the perception of the collapses will be analyzed from the points of view of the religious authority and communities involved, considering different types of sources (i.e. homilies, public speeches, liturgical writings, letters, sermons, decretals, registers, chronicles, hagiographic sources and devotional practices).