Diversity, Fear and Religions Cultural Accommodation in a Globalized World

Introduction
Gennaro Gervasio, Maria Chiara Giorda and Paola Perucchini

1. Fear in Western societies? An historical approach to Occidental construction of the “fear”
Manfredi Merluzzi

2. Religious fear in Greek antiquity: Plutarch’s On Superstition
Massimo Giuseppetti

3. Fearful new world 
Manlio Graziano

4. From Lampedusa to Kassel: Migration, art and the ruins of Europe             
Iain Chambers

5. White mythologies in the Mediterranean: Mobility as a tool for dismantling Eurocentric static geographies
Gabriele Proglio

6. Migration, Islam, and demographic fears: The narrative of replacement in Italian politics
Alberta Giorgi

7. Becoming a refugee: Ethnographic notes from a church asylum case in Germany        
Carmen Becker

8. Displaced populations as other: a learning approach to contrast fears and promote human rights 
Paola Perucchini, Sara Gabrielli and Bryan McCormack

9. Intercultural education: why it is necessary, its characteristics and its objectives
Marco Catarci and Massimiliano Fiorucci

10. Shout out/Shut up!          
Isabella De Paolis, Gennaro Gervasio and Maria Chiara Giorda

Biography

Gennaro Gervasio is Associate Professor of History of the Muslim Countries at the De- partment of Humanities, Roma Tre University, Italy. Prior to that, he has worked in Egypt, Australia and in the United Kingdom. He is Research Fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, and from 2019 to 2021 he was the co-coordinator for Roma Tre Univer- sity of PriMED international project (Prevention and Interaction in the Trans-Mediterrane- an Space). His research focuses on: secularism and Marxism in the Arab world, the history and politics of Islam in Europe, and civic activism and social and protest movements in the Arab World (especially Egypt and Iraq).

Maria Chiara Giorda is Full Professor of History of Religions at the Department of Hu- manities, Roma Tre University, Italy. She is the coordinator of the international project “SHARP Lab”, and a member of the École Française d’Athènes Project, “Interactions, juxtapositions, imbrications religieuses dans les Balkans (XX-XXIe siècles)” and of the Permanent Seminar on “Religious Diversity in Italian Urban History” (RDIUH), promoted by New York University and Roma Tre. Her research focuses on the following themes: history of religions, geography of religions, religion and urban spaces, shared religious places, history of monasticism.

Paola Perucchini is Full Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Head of Department at the Department of Education, Roma Tre University, Italy. She has been Vice-Director of the same Department and member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Psychology Association, Developmental and Educational Section (2012-2019). From 2019 to 2021 she was the co-coordinator for Roma Tre University of PriMED inter- national project (Prevention and Interaction in the Trans-Mediterranean Space). Her re- search interests include, among others, communicative infant development; children’s so- cial adjustment; children’s ethnic prejudice and educational programmes against discrimination.