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Stefano Bigliardi [+]
Al Akhawayn University
Stefano Bigliardi serves as Associate Professor of Philosophy at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, a liberal-arts college in Morocco that he joined in 2016. He is the author of the Cambridge University Press Islam and Science: Past, Present, and Future Debates (with Nidhal Guessoum; 2023) and New Religious Movements and Science (2023).
Abdelmojib Chouhbi [+]
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi are majoring in Computer Science at AUI’s School of Science and Engineering. In Fall 2022 they participated in Stefano’s undergraduate course in History of Ideas focusing on the history and beliefs of NRMs.
Mohamed Amine Ghafil [+]
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi are majoring in Computer Science at AUI’s School of Science and Engineering. In Fall 2022 they participated in Stefano’s undergraduate course in History of Ideas focusing on the history and beliefs of NRMs.
Amine Nakari [+]
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi are majoring in Computer Science at AUI’s School of Science and Engineering. In Fall 2022 they participated in Stefano’s undergraduate course in History of Ideas focusing on the history and beliefs of NRMs.
Danya Tazi Mokha [+]
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi are majoring in Computer Science at AUI’s School of Science and Engineering. In Fall 2022 they participated in Stefano’s undergraduate course in History of Ideas focusing on the history and beliefs of NRMs.
Salma Zahidi [+]
Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi are majoring in Computer Science at AUI’s School of Science and Engineering. In Fall 2022 they participated in Stefano’s undergraduate course in History of Ideas focusing on the history and beliefs of NRMs.
Description
Stefano Bigliardi, along with his students Abdelmojib Chouhbi, Mohamed Amine Ghafil, Amine Nakari, Danya Tazi Mokha, and Salma Zahidi, surveyed and analyzed the plots, dialogues and cinematic features of twenty-two movies which represented fictional new religious movements and their investigators. Among other foci, the group explored how culture, ethnicity, and gender were exploited to fit the films into the genre of horror. All the films are interesting, but the range may be suggested by the first and last.