Massimiliano Proietti

Junior fellow

proietti@fscire.it

Research interests

Liturgy and the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council

Education, academic and professional experience

On March 2023 he obtained his PhD at the Giuseppe Alberigo European School for Advanced Religious Studies (FSCIRE), defending a thesis on La liturgia del Vaticano II. La riforma conciliare e l'attività del Consilium ad exsequendum constitutionem de sacra liturgia (supervisor Prof. Marcel Metzger, Université de Strasbourg).
Between October 2021 and February 2022, he has been Visiting Scholar at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College.
In January 2018 he obteined his Master's degree in Historical-Religious Sciences at La Sapienza University of Rome, discussing a thesis in History of Christianity and Churches titled La liturgia stazionale a Roma: origine e funzione (IV-VI secolo) (rapporteur: Prof. Emanuela Prinzivalli; co-rapporteur: Prof. Tessa Canella).
In 2015 he graduated in History, Anthropology and Religions at the same university.

Featured publications

Articles

M. Proietti, Liturgia stazionale, spazio e inculturazione. La cristianizzazione di Roma tra il IV secolo e l’età di Gregorio Magno, «Cristianesimo nella storia» 3, 2020, pp. 663-696.

Chapters in books

M. Proietti, Ristrutturare l’antica cattedrale: il progetto di riforma del Breviario del cardinale Giovanni Battista Nasalli Rocca, in Ut turris. Il Cardinale Nasalli Rocca tra le due guerre, a cura di S. Marchesani e R. Pane, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2022, pp. 145-170.

Reviews

S. Bullivant, Mass Exodus. Catholic Disaffiliation in Britain and America since Vatican II, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2019, in «Cristianesimo nella storia» 42, 1 (2021), pp. 256-260

Tra pratiche e credenze. Traiettorie antropologiche e storiche. Un omaggio ad Adriana Destro, eds. C. Gianotto, F. Sbardella, Brescia, Morcelliana, 2017, in «Cristianesimo nella storia» 2, 2020, pp. 635-638.

Dictionary Entries

M. Proietti, Ugoni, Mattia, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. XCVII, Roma, Treccani, 2020, https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mattia-ugoni_(Dizionario-Biografico)

Conferences, seminars and workshops

Rome, December 12, 2022 – La liturgia stazionale nel contesto tardoantico: un esempio di mediazione culturale?
Seminar at la Sapienza Università di Roma as part of the History of Christianity Master’s course of prof. Tessa Canella.

Semaine d’études liturgiques 2022. Paris, July 5-8, 2022 – Paper: La liturgie stationnale comme expression de communion ecclésiale entre les quartiers de Rome.

International Congress of European Academy of Religion 2022. Bologna, June 20-23, 2022 – Paper: «Not less than ten years»: Cardinal Larraona’s Projects for the Implementation of the Liturgical Constitution in 1963.

Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association 2022. New Orleans, January 6-8, 2022 – Paper: Liturgical Reform and Cultural Adaptation. Sacrosanctum concilium and its First Applications in non-Western Contexts.