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Dr Giacomo Leoni: Is History a Question for Religious Scholarship - Two Case Studies

This presentation was given as part of University College Cork's Study of Religions Research Seminar Series. Dr Giacomo Leoni: Is History a Question for Religious Scholarship - Two Case Studies Departments of Religions, scarred by accusations of bias and moved by the naive ambition towards an "objective" human science, have long relied on historical approaches to deal with the politically dominant religions of the West. However, even this historiographical approach does not shield us from the risks of instrumental research, and can instead become a restraining and ultimately disingenuous limit to the intellectual and participatory beliefs of their proponent and harm their contribution to the field. After and alongside a general reflection on the nature of reception, the two case studies present a model for transparently religious approaches that still manage to provide us a solid historical analysis and - rather than losing authenticity - disclose the perspective-based nature of historiographical work. Giacomo Leoni began his foray in academics in Padua studying History writ-large and then moving into History of Ancient Christianity at Padua and Ca'Foscari. The question raised during his research into early Christian heretics led to a PhD in Philosophy of Religion at Boston University. His research spans questions of tradition and inheritance, especially in their connection to authority and violence, although his next project will be "A Path Towards Ethical Spectatorship", a collaboration with the Film and Screen Media Department at University College Cork. On the theoretical side, he is indebted to Gadamer, Ricoeur and Kearney insofar as hermeneutics are concerned, while his philosophical underpinning stems from Fichte, Levinas, Marion and the latter's conversations with Derrida.