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Polislombardia – Osservatorio su società e politica in lombardia
GSPM – Groupe de sociologie politique et morale
Religions, Mobilizations and Political Cultures: An International  
Workshop
Milan, January 26th-27th 2007
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Many researchers in Sociology, History and Political Science are  
dealing with topics of political cultures changing, and  
hybridization. This Workshop wants to be a forum for academic  
discussions on the relationships between religions, mobilizations in  
social movements and political cultures changing.
Political cultures – defined here as patterns of shared public  
symbols, meanings and styles of action – emerge and become  
consolidated through longue-durée historical processes.  Far from  
being fixed and stable identities, they transform noticeably over  
time, following unpredictable logics, within political processes. In  
recent years, the study of political cultures has focused ever more  
attention to the analysis of the ways in which initially distinct  
structures with well-distinguished symbolic boundaries undergo  
hybridization through gradual changes. Such structures constitute  
coherent articulations of views on the world and actions, aiming to  
reduce the complexity and the intrinsic contradictory nature of  
action, of the codes of communication which allow actors to  
understand and comprehend each other reciprocally.
The aim of this International Workshop is to discuss and to compare  
the way in which, in social movement mobilizations, religious frames  
and political cultures meet each other, giving rise to conflicts but  
also to hybridizations. In order to analyse various case-studies, the  
Workshop will focus on papers based on empirical researches. Papers  
focusing both on historical reconstruction and on theoretical  
interpretation are welcomed, especially papers focusing on how the  
processes of hybridization takes place.
Only a limited number of papers will be accepted. The selection will  
be based on the relevance of a proposal for discussion of the central  
theme and the academic quality of the proposal.
The Workshop will be hosted at the
Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
University of Milano-Bicocca
http://www.sociologiadip.unimib.it/dipartimento
January 26th-27th 2007
·        Paper-proposals should be sent by October 2nd 2006
·        Acceptance will be communicated by October 16th 2006
·        Papers have to be completed by December 22nd 2006
·        Final program will be defined by January 8th 2007
Please send proposals to all three directors:
·     Damien De Blic,
Groupe de Sociologie Politique et Morale (EHESS/CNRS),  
damien.deblic@???
·     Simone Tosi,
Department of Sociology and Social Research, (University of Milano- 
Bicocca), simone.tosi@???
·     Tommaso Vitale,
Department of Sociology and Social Research, (University of Milano- 
Bicocca), tommaso.vitale@???