
Francesco PIRAINO
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Francesco Piraino, PhD
francescopiraino84@gmail.com
https://www.francescopiraino.com/en/
Work Experience
- Università Ca’ Foscari - Venice, Venice, Italy (November 2020- onward)
Postdoctoral Fellow - Project SPIN - Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea (DSAAM)
- Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy (May 2017 – onward)
Director of the Centre of Comparative Studies on Civilizations and Spiritualities
- Invisible Lines - a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program (September 2020- September 2022)
Scientific director of the project Invisible Lines
- IDEMEC (CNRS) Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative, Aix-en-Provence, France (January 2020- September 2020)
Postdoctoral Fellow in the project “soufisme en France / soufisme de France”. Ministère de l’intérieur, DLPAJ, Bureau central des cultes.
- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (September 2017 – September 2019)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Sociological Research (CeSO)
Collaborations in International Research Networks
- ANR Project Cirelanmed, IDEMEC – CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France (February 2017)
Research fieldwork for “Circulations religieuses et ancrages méditerranéens. États et internationalisation des faits religieux contemporains. Europe du Sud, Maghreb, Moyen-Orient”
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa (November – December 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies, financed by the National Research Fund South Africa
- Centre Jacques Berque CNRS, Rabat, Morocco (April - June 2016)
Postdoctoral Fellow, financed by the Centre Jacques Berque (CNRS) and the ANR Cirelanmed
Teaching
- University of Ca’ Foscari, Venice (February - April 2021)
Course - 30 hours - “Holy Books and Models of Social Organizations”
- EHESS Paris (December 2020- March 2021)
Seminaire de recherche - 32 hours UE896 - “Universalisations et patrimonialisations du soufisme”
Education and Training
- Scuola Normale Superiore in co-tutorship with École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Italy - France (November 2011 - February 2016).
PhD thesis title: « Le développement du soufisme en Europe : au-delà de l’antinomie tradition modernité ». Doctor Europaeus, Ph.D. in Sociology, graduated with highest honors; supervisors prof. Vincenzo Pace and Danièle Hervieu-Léger.
- Lund University, Lund, Sweden (September - October 2012 and September - November 2015)
Visiting PhD student at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies CMES, supervisor prof. Leif Steinberg
- University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark (January - February 2015)
Visiting PhD student, supervisor prof. Mark Sedgwick
- University of Padua, Padua, Italy (September 2006 - October 2010)
Master in Sociology, final mark: 110 cum laude/110
- Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy (September 2002 - July 2006)
Bachelor in Philosophy, final mark 105/110
Photography Training
- Magnum Workshop, Paris, France (20-21 April 2018)
Photographic workshop with Patrick Zachmann and Xavier Barral (Magnum)
- KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (October 2017 – January 2018)
Advanced and intermediate courses of photography at KU Leuven Photographic Club with professor Ivan Derbiesen
Arabic Language Courses
- PEASS - Programme des Études Arabes appliquées au Sciences Sociales – École de Gouvernance et Économie de Rabat (Rabat, Morocco) July 2018 full immersion course, Arabic A1/A2
- KU Leuven CLT, Leuven, Belgium (September 2017 -June 2018) Arabic A1
Publications
Books
- Francesco Piraino. Forthcoming 2021. Le soufisme en Europe : entre Islam, ésotérisme et New Age. Circulations religieuses dans la Méditerranée. Paris: Karthala Collection l’Atelier méditerranéen.
Edited Books
- Claude Proeschel, David Koussens, and Francesco Piraino (eds). Forthcoming 2021. Religion, Law and the Politics of Ethical Diversity. Conscientious Objection and Contestation of Civil Norms. London: Routledge.
- Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, and Egil Asprem (eds). Forthcoming 2021. Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge.
- Andrea De Antoni and Francesco Piraino (eds). Forthcoming 2021. Comparing Experiences of Spirit Possession. Biomedical and Religious Healing. London: Routledge.
- Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino (eds). Forthcoming 2021. Esoteric Transfers and Constructions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. London: Palgrave.
- Francesco Piraino and Mark Sedgwick. 2019. Global Sufism: Reconfiguring Narratives, Boundaries and Identities. London: Hurst.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Francesco Piraino. 2019. “Esotericisation and De-esotericisation of Sufism in Italy”, Correspondences, vol. 7(1): 239-276.
- Francesco Piraino. 2019. “Les Politiques du Soufisme en France”, Social Compass, 66(1): 134-146.
- Francesco Piraino and Laura Zambelli. 2018. “Queer Muslims in South Africa: Engaging Islamic Tradition”. Journal for Islamic Studies, 37: 123-147.
- Francesco Piraino. 2016. “René Guénon et son héritage dans le soufisme du XXIème siècle”, Religiologiques, n. 31 pp. 155-180.
- Francesco Piraino. 2016. “Between Real and Virtual Communities: Sufism in Western societies and the Naqshbandi Haqqani case”, Social Compass, vol. 63(1), pp. 93-108. *Awarded Best Article 2017 by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)
- Francesco Piraino and Laura Zambelli. 2015. “Mamma Schiavona and Santa Rosalia, popular worship: between religiosity and identity”, Critical Research on Religion, vol. 3(3), pp. 266-281. http://crr.sagepub.com/content/3/3/266.short
- Francesco Piraino. 2011. “Entrare nel sé divino: un confronto etnografico tra mistica cristiana e mistica musulmana”, Religioni e Società, vol. 71, pp. 97-105.
Peer-Reviewed Chapters in Edited Books
- Francesco Piraino. (forthcoming 2021). “The Eurasia Network: Riding the Conspiracist Tiger in Contemporary Italy” in Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, and Egil Asprem (eds). Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories. London: Routledge.
- Francesco Piraino. (forthcoming 2021). “The Sufi Shaykh and His Patients: Merging Islam, Psychoanalysis, and Western Esotericism” in Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino. Esoteric Transfers and Constructions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. London: Palgrave.
- Francesco Piraino and Antonio de Diego González. (forthcoming 2020). “Sufism in Latin Europe” in Marcia Hermansen and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Encyclopaedia of Islamic Mysticism - Handbook of Sufi Studies. Leiden: Brill.
- Francesco Piraino. (forthcoming 2020). “Pèlerinages, voyages et ziyārāt soufis entre Nord et Sud de la Méditerranée : différents modes d’ancrages religieux et social”, in Katia Boissevain et Loïc le Pape, De la complexité des chemins religieux en Méditerranée. Conversions, apprentissages et ancrages. Paris: Khartala.
- Francesco Piraino. 2019. “Who is the Infidel? Religious boundaries and social change in the Shadhiliyya Darqawiyya Alawiyya” in Francesco Piraino and Mark Sedgwick, Global Sufism: Reconfiguring Narratives, Boundaries and Identities. London: Hurst, pp. 75-92.
- Francesco Piraino. 2017. “Pilgrimages in European Sufism”, in Richard Natvig and Ingvild Flaskereud (eds), Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe. London – New York: Routledge, pp- 157-169.
- Francesco Piraino and Laura Zambelli. 2014. “Mamma Schiavona and Santa Rosalina: tra religiosità e identità”, in Pace V., Berzano L. and Castagnaro A. (eds), La religione popolare nella società post-secolare. Padova: Messaggero, pp. 319-332.
- Francesco Piraino 2014. “European Sufism and its Social and Political Role. The Fluidity of Identities”, in Erkan Toguslu, Ding Yuan and Johan Leman (eds), Developing a sense of Belonging in Diverse Societies: Hui-Muslims in China and Muslims in Europe, Workshop Proceedings, KU Leuven Gulen Chair, pp. 171-185.
Other Publications
- Francesco Piraino. 2019. « Sufismo d’Europa, Sufismo in Europa ». Rivista Oasis
- Francesco Piraino. (2019). Review “Alireza Doostdar. 2018. The Iranian Metaphysicals Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny". Princeton: Princeton University Press, Aries, pp. 301-302
- Francesco Piraino. 2016. Review Le soufisme au Maroc : entre mysticisme et politique. Review: “Bouasria, Abdelilah. 2015. Sufism and Politics in Morocco, Activism and Dissent. New York: Routledge”, Société Suisse Moyen-Orient et Civilisation islamique (SSMOCI), Bulletin 42, pp. 54-55.
- Francesco Piraino. 2014. “Bruno Guiderdoni—Among Sufism, Traditionalism and Science: A Reply to Bigliardi”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective, vol. 3(11), pp. 21-24.
As a Photographer
- Francesco Piraino. 2018. “Queering a Mary Icon: a photographic tour of a religious pilgrimage in Southern Italy”. Mr Ma’am 2018, pp. 37-42.
- Francesco Piraino. 2017. Pictures in Andrea Brigaglia and Mauro Nobili (eds), The Arts and Crafts of Literacy: Islamic Manuscripts in Cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 331-352.
Prizes Awarded
- Best Article Award 2017 – ISSR/SISR International Society for the Sociology of Religion.
For the article Francesco Piraino (2016) “Between Real and Virtual Communities: Sufism in Western societies and the Naqshbandi Haqqani case”, Social Compass, vol. 63(1), pp. 93-108, 900 EUR.
- Merit scholarship 2016 – Giorgio Cini Foundation, 1,000 EUR
Conferences Organized
“Contesting in the Name of Religion in “Secularised” Societies Between Doctrine and Militancy” in collaboration with Claude Proeschel (GSRL EPHE-CNRS) David Koussens (Université de Sherbrooke) Valérie Amiraux (Université de Montréal) Frédéric Volpi (Edinburgh University), Venice 4-5 April 2019.
“Embodying Scientific Medicine and Religious Healing, A Comparative Perspective on Exorcism and Non-Voluntary Spirit Possession” in collaboration with prof. Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University - Kyoto) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 13-14-15 December 2018.
“Common and Comparative Esotericisms” in collaboration with Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus University) and Dilek Sarmis (EHESS) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 12-13-14 June 2018.
“Political Islam in Europe” in collaboration with Mohammed Ben Salah (Mohammed VI University) and Khalid Rhazzali (Padua University) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 15-16 December 2017.
“Transnational Sufism in contemporary Societies: reconfiguring narratives, identities and boundaries” in collaboration with Mark Sedgwick (Aarhus University) at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 10-11-12 November 2017.
Conferences Attended
ISSR - International Society for the Sociology of Religion
University of Barcelona (9-12 July 2019). Paper presented: “A Sufi Network in the Transnational Public Sphere”.
7th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism
University of Amsterdam (2-4 July 2019). Paper presented: “Understanding Dreams: Sufism and Psychoanalysis in Milan”.
117th Conference of the American Anthropological Association
San José (San Francisco) (14-18/11/2018). Paper presented: “Sufism and Politics in North Africa: Between Powers and Societies”.
14ème Congrès national de science politique
University of Montpellier (10-12/07/2017). Paper presented: “Soufisme et politique”.
ISSR - International Society for the Sociology of Religion
University of Lausanne (4-7/07/2017). Paper presented: “Soufisme, politique et écologie”.
6th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism ESSWE - Western Esotericism and Deviance
University of Erfurt (1-3/06/2017). Paper presented: “Negotiating Orthodoxy and Deviance Among Sufi Orders in Milan”.
Circulations religieuses et ancrages méditerranéens, Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain IRMC
Tunis (23-24/11/2016). Paper presented: “Au-delà des frontières du croire : le soufisme transnational”.
First Euro-Arab Meeting for Young Researchers in Social Sciences
Knowledge Transfer Project Manama, Bahrein (19-25/10/2015). Paper presented: “Le développement du soufisme en Europe: éthiques et politiques”.
International Society for Media, Religion and Culture
University of Kent, Canterbury (4-6/08/2014). Paper presented: “Sufism in western societies, between real and virtual communities: an overview and the Naqshbandi Haqqani case”.
Developing a sense of belonging in diverse societies: Muslims in Europe and Hui-Muslims in China
University of Leuven, Belgium (14/05/2014). Paper presented: “The fluid identities in European Sufism and its social and political role”.
Pilgrimages in European Islam
University of Bergen (03-03/10/2013). Paper presented: “Pilgrimages in European Sufism”.
Witchcraft, Magic and Popular Religion XI Gustav Vasa Seminar
University of Jyväskylä (11-12/06/2013). Paper presented: “Mamma Schiavona and Santa Rosalia: between identity and spirituality”.
La religione popolare nella società post secolare
University of Padua (19-20/10/2012). Paper presented: “Santa Rosalia e Mamma Schiavona: tra religiosità e identità”.
Seminars and Lectures
De la fabrique des autorités religieuses CHERPA – IREMAM – IDEMEC, invited by Katia Boissevain, Marie-Laure Boursin, Norig Neveu, Sabrina Mervin and Franck Fregosi, “Des parcours, formation et présentation de soi des maîtres soufis” (CNRS-Science Po Aix-en-Provence, 29/11/2018).
IDEMEC – CNRS, “Le soufisme méditerranéen dans la sphère publique : entre diplomatie et realpolitik” (Aix-en-Provence, 12/10/2018).
CISMOC - Louvain-la-Neuve, invited by Brigitte Maréchal, “Les politiques du soufisme entre l’Europe et le Maghreb” (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 30/05/2018).
KU Leuven, invited by Dick Houtman, “Sufism and Islam” (KU Leuven, Belgium, 24/04/2018).
Une Méditerranée connectée. Anthropologie des religions et introduction aux humanitées numériques. Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain IRMC, (Tunis, Tunisia, 26-30/11/2016).
Université Moulay Ismaïl de Meknès, invited by Khalid Mouna and Mohammed Fadil
« Conversion à l’Islam pour une sociologie des conversions » (Meknès, Morocco, 16/05/2016).
Université International de Rabat – Science Po Rabat, invited by Sophie Bava and Farid El Asri « Soufisme contemporain : éthiques et politiques entre le Maghreb et l'Europe » (Rabat, Morocco, 20/04/2016).
Centre Jacques Berque de Rabat – CNRS, invited by Sabrina Mervin
« Soufisme et politique entre Europe et Maghreb » (Rabat, Morocco, 19/04/2016).
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, invited by Leif Stenberg
“European Sufism: Ethics and Politics” (Lund, Sweden, 13/11/2015).
Research Group CIRELANMED - Circulation religieuses et ancrages méditerranéens. États et internationalisation des faits religieux contemporains. Europe du Sud, Maghreb, Moyen-Orient
“Les pèlerinages dans le soufisme européen” (Padua, Italy, 6-7/11/2015).
University of Padua, “Master Islam d’Europa”, invited by Enzo Pace and Khalid Rhazzali
“Introduzione al Sufismo, Sufismo europeo”, (Padua, Italy, 18/04/2013).
Aarhus University, invited by Henrik Reintoft Christensen
“Sociology of religion, sociology of conversion” (Aarhus, Denmark, 24/02/2015).
Aarhus University, invited by Mark Sedgwick
“Pathways of religious conversion in European Sufism” (Aarhus, Denmark, 12/02/2015).
University of Southern Denmark, invited by Dietrich Jun and Mark Sedgwick
“Modern Muslim Subjectivities” (Odense, Denmark, 20/01/2015).
University of Padua, “Master Islam d’Europa”, invited by Enzo Pace and Khalid Rhazzali
“I pellegrinaggi nel Sufismo europeo” (Padua, Italy, 23/10/2013).
École Pratique des Hautes Études, invited by Jean Pierre Brach
“René Guénon et son héritage dans le Soufisme du XXIème siècle” (Paris, France, 02/06/2013).
American University of Paris, invited by Waddick Doyle
“Religious Conversions and construction of self-identity: between theory and fieldwork” (Paris, France, 19/04/2013).
Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, invited by Leif Stenberg
“Sufism among European converts” (Lund, Sweden, 31/10/2013).
Funding Awarded
Total funding awarded: 639,000 EUR
SPIN Project Ca’ Foscari, 104,000 EUR.
Invisible Lines Project - Creative Europe 200,000 EUR.
Ministère de l’intérieur, DLPAJ, Bureau central des cultes, 80,000 EUR.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, 200,000 EUR.
ESSWE, Travel Grant, May 2017, (Germany), 300 EUR.
Cirelanmed CNRS – Aix-en Provence, Research Grant, January-February 2017, (France), 2,000 EUR.
Cape Town University, Research Grant, November 2016 (South Africa), 19,520 ZAR.
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Merit Scholarship, July 2016 (Italy), 1,000 EUR.
Cirelanmed CNRS – Aix-en Provence, Research Grant, April-June 2016, (France), 3,400 EUR.
Centre Jacques Berque CNRS – Rabat, Research Grant, April 2016, (France-Morocco), 800 EUR.
Padua University, Travel Grant, November 2015 (Italy), 600 EUR.
Lerici Foundation, Research Grant, September-November 2015, (Sweden), 20,000 SEK.
AUFF Guest Aarhus University, Researcher Grant, January-February 2015 (Denmark), 20,000 DKK.
Erasmus traineeship, January-February 2015, (European Union), 900 EUR.
Scuola Normale Superiore, PhD Scholarship 2011-2014, (Italy), 40,950 EUR.
Collaborations
Member of the AAA (2018 – onward)
American Anthropological Association (www.americananthro.org)
Founding Member of ENSIE (2016 – onward)
European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE), a thematic network of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE, www.esswe.org).
Founding Member of the ICSOR (2016 – onward)
International Centre for Sociology of Religion, http://www.icsor.it/statuto/.
Member of the AFSP (2017 – onward)
Association Française de Science Politique, http://www.afsp.info/.
Member of the ISSR (2017 – onward)
International Society for the Sociology of Religion, https://www.sisr-issr.org/fr/.
Photographic Exhibition
Sufis: A Look at the Mystics of Contemporary Islam, Kif Kif, Anterp, Belgium October 2019- Febrary 2020 https://kifkif.be/sufism-exhibition
Other information
Language Skills:
Italian: native speaker.
English: fluent (C1)
French: fluent (C1)
Arabic: (A2), but I am improving.
IT Skills:
Excellent knowledge of Mac and Windows operating systems.
Excellent knowledge of Office packages (Word, Excel, Power Point).
Good Knowledge of SPSS – statistical data analysis.
Good Knowledge of Photoshop – Photography post-production.
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