Cristiana Facchini

Cristiana Facchini is a Professor of History of Christianity and Religious Studies. She studied in Bologna and further specialized in Oxford, Turin, Jerusalem, and Paris.

Her research focuses extensively on the history and theories of religion, with particular attention to Christianity and Judaism. In 2015, she was one of the keynote speakers at the XXI IAHR (International Association for the History of Religions) World Congress, held in Erfurt.

Her recent publications:

C. Facchini & A. Grazi. Eds. 2025. Religious Transformations in Europe: Individual Life Paths between Secularism and (New) Religiosity in the 19th Century (Göttingen: V&R)

C. Facchini, G. Imbruglia, V. Lavenia, S. Pavone. Eds. 2025. Sacrifice and Sacred Violence: History, Comparisons, and the Early Modern World (Turnhout: Brepols)

C. Facchini & A. Lannoy. 2024. Eds. The Many Lives of Jesus: Scholarship, Religion, and the Nineteenth Century Imagination (Turnhout: Brepols)

C. Facchini & J. Rüpke. Eds. 2023. The City in the History of Religion, monographic issue of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte