Identità etniche, identità collettive, identità religiose. Problemi aperti in prospettiva diacronica

In this monographic section, the proceedings of the International research seminar on "Ethnic Identities, Collective Identities, Religious Identities. Open Questions in the diachronic perspective" (Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, February 11 2014) are published; the seminar was held in the context of the FIRB-Future in Research Project 2012 on "The Construction of Space and Time in the Transmission of Collective Identities. Religious Polarizations and/or Cohabitations in Ancient World (1st-6th cent. CE)", directed by Luca Arcari (Project no. RBFR12R82W). Today it emerges as really diriment an historical and/or historiographical discussion around questions and terms as “identity/identities”, as well as around adjectives as “ethnic/collective/religious”, especially according to the renewed perspective of the longue durée (in the title of the monographic section, the so-called “diachronic perspective”). Such a perspective aims at measuring wastes and clashes emerging from sources referring to a wider cultural and chronological horizon. We aims at proposing a multi-situated approach, in order to measure persistences and traditional lines of contact as regards ethnic, collective as well as religious self-definitions, especially in their dimensions of cultural re-functionalisations and oriented instruments of self-definitions in and for specific cultural and historical contexts.