Emiliano Urciuoli

Associate Professor in History of Religion. From December 2022 to November 2025 he served as Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna. Previously, he was postdoctoral researcher at the Max-Weber-Kolleg of the University of Erfurt (2015-2022). He spent research stays in Paris, Berlin, and Geneva.


His research interests focus on the history of the ancient Christ religion, methodological advances in the study of ancient Mediterranean religious groups and traditions, issues of theory and method in the accademic study of religions, and the phenomenon of ancient and contemporary urban religion. He is conversant with issues of political theology, sociology of religion, critical theory of space, and critique of ideology (including religious ideologies) Go to the Curriculum vitae