Pluralismo religioso, condivisioni di pratiche e nuove migrazioni nel Mediterraneo

Studies of shared holy places have represented one major research path in Mediterranean anthropology over the past twenty years. Partly as a response to Huntington’s thesis of the clash of civilisations, they have provided many examples of coexistence and mixing of believers of the three Mediterranean monotheisms, significantly located almost exclusively in the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean that had been under Ottoman rule. The aim of this article is to take stock of these studies and to draw attention to a few very recent ethnographies which show that “new migrations” from Muslim countries and the Indian sub-continent to Italy are generating novel forms of religious pluralism and sharing of holy places and cults in the north-western shores of the Mediterranean, where they had been so far conspicuously absent.