Trespassing Religions, Identities and Borders in the Ancient Levant
PNRR M4C2: Dalla RICERCA all’IMPRESA
Acronym: TRIBAL
Description
TRIBAL attempts to readdress the religious history (12th–4th centuries BCE) of the Levant, focussing on the overall similarity of local religion\s rather than a difference based on presumed ethnic identities and postulated cultural borders. The project aims to understand the complexity of several Levantine pantheons backed by epigraphic and archaeological data, in terms of a strongly interconnected world, and a shared symbolic infrastructure.
TRIBAL has a twofold research objective:
1) describing the divine variety in ancient Levant in terms of “divine landscape” rather than as a juxtaposition of ethnically bounded pantheons, by shifting the focus from monumental and urban materials to data regarded as 'secondary evidence' or coming from the 'fringes';
2) promoting an understanding of religion not based on ethnic identities but as a social connector beyond political boarders, as part of a regional equilibrium made of competition, fluidity, and mutual understanding.
Project information
- Funded by: European Union NextGenerationEU and Italian Ministry of University and Research
- Call: PNRR: Missione 4 – Componente 2 “Dalla ricerca all’impresa” – Investimento 1.2 – Finanziamento di progetti presentati da giovani ricercatori – beneficiari di “Seal of Excellence”
- Start date: 9 gennaio 2023
- End date: 8 gennaio 2025
- ISPC Scientific coordinator: Fabio Porzia
- Project Leader: CNR ISPC
- Partners: University of Zurich
- Budget: € 150.000
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