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Alessandro Testa (born 30 October 1983) is a Italian cultural historian and social anthropologist. He has contributed to a number of themes in religious studies and in the historical and cultural anthropology of European societies. He is currently Associate Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague.
His research interests encompass topics ranging from public rituality to secularisation and de-secularisation, from longue-durée cultural continuities to current social transformations, from popular cultures to vernacular forms of religiosity, from ancient mythologies and paganism to esotericism and new forms of spirituality, from cultural heritage-making to collective memories, identity formation, and nationalism in Europe, and from theories and methods in social and historical sciences to epistemology. These topics have been approached in a multi-disciplinary fashion and explored theoretically and empirically, either comparatively (at the pan-European or global level) or with a special attention to Central-Eastern and Mediterranean Europe.
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Bártová, Zuzana, Povedák, István, Testa, Alessandro (eds.) 2024. “Re-enchantment” and Religious Change in Former Socialist Europe. Thematic issue of Religion, n. 54 (1).
Testa, Alessandro (2023) Ritualising Cultural Heritage and Re-Enchanting Rituals in Europe. Durham: Carolina Academic Press.
Testa, Alessandro, Vaczi, Mariann (eds.) (2023). Popular Culture, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Catalonia. Suffolk: Tamesis (Boydell & Brewer).
Testa, Alessandro (2020). Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe. London-New York: Routledge.
Köllner, Tobias, Testa, Alessandr (eds.) (2021). Politics of Religion: Authority, Creativity, Conflicts. Berlin, Wien, Zürich: LIT.
Cyril, Isnart, Testa, Alessandro (eds.) 2020. Re-enchantment, Ritualization, Heritage-making: Processes Reconfiguring Tradition in Europe. Thematic issue of Ethnologia Europaea, n. 50 (1)
Testa, Alessandro (2016). La religiosità dei Sanniti. Isernia: Cosmo Iannone.
Testa, Alessandro (2014). Il carnevale dell’uomo-animale. Le dimensioni storiche e socio-culturali di una festa appenninica. Napoli: Loffredo.
Testa, Alessandro (2010). Miti antichi e moderne mitologie. Saggi di storia delle religioni e storia degli studi sul mondo antico. Roma: Aracne.