Roberta Collu Moran
Institut Catholique de Paris Institut Catholique de ParisFrance
Curriculum Vitae

Roberta Collu Moran

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Born in Cagliari (Italy) in 1972, Roberta Collu Moran is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. A lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris (Institute of Science and Theology of Religions), she holds a doctorate in ethnoscenology from the University of Paris 8 (2005) and a degree in the theology of interreligious dialogue from the Institut Catholique de Paris (2009). She took part in creating and co-directing the university diploma “Judaism, Christianity, Islam: interaction of doctrines and practices” and has taught religious studies, the interreligious question and the anthropology of religions in several Parisian institutions. Her research focuses on the anthropology of contemporary religious societies, religious plurality in France and Europe, dialogue and relations between religious groups, and on devotional practices and pilgrimages. She has directed several documentaries on religion for KTO and LCP.

Disciplines

Anthropology of Religions

Topics

Arts and Culture Religious Pluralism Worship Places

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Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion

  • Guillaume Chatagny

Abstract Published in 2021 in Visual Ethnography (vol. 10, no. 2) under the title "Experiencing a Mosque Through Photography: Islam As an Ordinary Religion", this article by Guillaume Chatagny, ...

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Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam

  • Roberta Collu Moran

Les Affranchis. Des dérives religieuses dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (Le Passeur, 2020) offers an anthropological reading of religious excesses and radicalisation within the ...

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A Fragrant Spiritual Heritage. Some Considerations on Perfumes in Islam

  • Ida Zilio-Grandi

Abstract Published in volume 20 (2025) of Quaderni di Studi Arabi, this article by Ida Zilio-Grandi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) revisits a constant of Islamic history that has attracted r...

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Photographing Ordinary Islam

  • Guillaume Chatagny

What does Islam concretely look like within a Muslim association? This is the question addressed by sociologist Guillaume Chatagny in this book, based on fieldwork conducted between 2017 and 2021 w...

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Religious Tourism and Sustainability in the MENA Region

  • Antonio Angelucci

Edited by Antonio Angelucci, Flavia Cortelezzi and Alessandro Cupri (Ledizioni, 2025), this volume offers a theoretical and methodological framework for religious tourism, a continuously expanding ...

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“An Anthropology of Imamite Love among Iranian Believers”, by Sepideh Parsapajouh

  • Sepideh Parsapajouh

In the volume honouring the Islamic-studies scholar Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, De la lettre à l'esprit (eds. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov and Mathieu Terrier, Brepols, 2025), Sepideh Parsapajouh, an anthropol...

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Women, Agency and Religion: Social and Legal Issues in the Mediterranean Public Space

  • Leïla Tauil

On the two Mediterranean shores, women’s agency is articulated by new social and legal actors who face the religious factor both as an asset and as a hindrance. This book explores how female ...

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What does the reformation of religion mean?

Lecture given by Mohamed El Haddad as part of the Anawati Chair at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies in Cairo. Summary Plural Mohamed El Haddad presents his conception of religious re...