MONACA Mariangela

Mariangela Monaca is Full Professor of History of Religions at the Department of Ancient and Modern Civilisations, University of Messina (Italy). She is President of CUSR, Secretary of SISR and of BRIA. She is a member of numerous national and international research groups and projects (Spain, Portugal, Germany, Brazil) and is the P.I. of the Messina unit of the PRIN Old Words for a New World: Translating Christianity to Baltic Pagans (PRIN_20223FZJR4_002).
Her research focuses on the religious history of the Late Antique world, the relations between polytheisms and Christianity, the themes of divination of magic and thaumaturgy, the connections between ritual and tragedy, the interreligious dialogue and the methodological issues. Recently, she has been working on Digital History, and in particular on the History of Religions and AI.