Publications - Francesco Piraino
Books
Francesco Piraino. (forthcoming). Le soufisme en Europe : entre Islam, ésotérisme et New Age. Circulations religieuses dans la Méditerranée. Paris: Karthala Collection l’Atelier méditerranéen.
Edited Books
(1) Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino (eds). Forthcoming 2020. Esoteric Transfers and
Constructions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. London: Palgrave.
(2) Francesco Piraino and Mark Sedgwick. 2019. Global Sufism: Reconfiguring Narratives, Boundaries and Identities. London: Hurst. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/global-sufism/
Peer-Reviewed Articles
(1) Francesco Piraino. 2019. “Esotericisation and De-esotericisation of Sufism in Italy” Correspondences, vol. 7(1): 239-276.
https://correspondencesjournal.com/18406-2/
(2) Francesco Piraino. 2019. “Les Politiques du Soufisme en France”, Social Compass, 66(1): 134-146.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0037768618816095
(3) Francesco Piraino and Laura Zambelli. 2018. “Queer Muslims in South Africa: Engaging Islamic Tradition”. Journal for Islamic Studies, 37: 123-147.
https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-1844591d85
(4) Francesco Piraino. 2016. “René Guénon et son héritage dans le soufisme du XXIème siècle”, Religiologiques, n. 31 pp. 155-180. http://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca/no33/33_155-180_Piraino.pdf
(5) 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.
http://scp.sagepub.com/content/63/1/93
*Awarded Best Article 2017 by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR)
https://www.sisr-issr.org/en/awards-and-grant
(6) 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
(7) Francesco Piraino. 2011. “Entrare nel sé divino: un confronto etnografico tra mistica cristiana e mistica musulmana”, Religioni e Società, vol. 71, pp. 97-105.
http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201131303&rivista=313
Peer Reviewed Chapters in Edited Books
(1) Francesco Piraino. (forthcoming 2020). “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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(5) 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.
https://www.routledge.com/Muslim-Pilgrimage-in-Europe/Flaskerud-Natvig/p/book/9781472447470
(6) 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.
http://www.edizionimessaggero.it/ita/catalogo/scheda.asp?ISBN=978-88-250-3682-4
(7) 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
(1) Francesco Piraino. 2019. « Sufismo d’Europa, Sufismo in Europa ». Rivista Oasis
https://www.oasiscenter.eu/it/sufismo-in-europa
(2) 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
https://brill.com/view/journals/arie/19/2/article-p301_11.xml
(3) Francesco Piraino. 2016. “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.
http://www.sagw.ch/sgmoik/publikationen/bulletins.html
(4) 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
(1) Francesco Piraino. 2018. “Queering a Mary Icon: a photographic tour of a religious pilgrimage in Southern Italy”. Mr Ma’am 2018, pp. 37-42.
(2) 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.
https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783110541441/9783110541441-012/9783110541441-012.pdf