Profile Summary
CURRENT POSITION
MA in Islamic Studies at Trinity Saint David University of Wales,
Editor for various Italian and foreign magazines, Sociology of Religion and Islamic Studies teacher.
CURRICULUM
Masters in Human Resources Management at Alma Graduate School (2007).
Degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science University of Bologna. Thesis: "Taoism between tradition and modernity" (2005).
After the thesis he continued his studies on Taoism in collaboration with the Association Buddhist Chan Zatma, with whom he has contributed to a research on Chan Buddhism in southern China, "Assault on the Summit" and which still works . He later became interested in Judaism and Islam, with particular attention to the reform movements and mysticism.
Giacalone also puts great emphasis on intercultural and interreligious issues and travelled to England on several occasions to study the dynamics of immigration and integration.
AREAS OF INTERESTS
ISLAMIC STUDIES and SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM with particular attention to the relationship between tradition and modernity
INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION, Max Weber
SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
WEST AFRICAN AND AFRO-CARIBBEAN TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS