Stefania Palmisano
Stefania Palmisano, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Sociology of Religion at the University of Turin, Italy, where she teaches the sociology of religion and the sociology of organization. She was a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University and a Visiting Research Fellow, the Department of Religion, Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Wolverhampton University. She is a member of the editorial board of Social Compass, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Journal for the Study of Spirituality, Frontiers in Sociology and Fieldwork in Religion. In addition, she is the coordinator of the research center CRAFT (Contemporary Religion and Faiths in Transition) based in the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at Turin University. Her research includes religious experience in mainstream religions, alternative spiritualities, New Religious Movements, women and religion and the relationship between spirituality and care in the Italian healthcare system. She is the author of Exploring New Monastic Communities: The Re-invention of Tradition (Ashgate, 2015), co-editor with Isabelle Jonveaux of Monasticism in Modern Times (Routledge, 2016), co-editor with Nicola Pannofino of Invention of Tradition and Syncretism in Contemporary Religions: Sacred Creativity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and (with Nicola Pannofino) Contemporary Spiritualities: Enchanted Worlds of Nature, Wellbeing and Mystery in Italy (Routledge, 2020).