framework Demichelis, researcher Marie Curie of the ' project 'Religion and Civil Society' of the 'Institute for Culture and Society' (ICS), is on a stay at the Institute for Oriental programs of study of the University of Bamberg (Germany). Between October and December 2017, he is working together with Professor Patrick Franke.

Demichelis' research revolves around violence against non-Muslims in Islamic revelation, which he studies from two perspectives: "the historical, with respect to the first century of Islamic history, and the exegetical, promoting a critical understanding of the verses that seem to encourage this violence".

It deals with this topic from a deradicalization perspective that allows to "identify the main "false" reasons behind the Islamophobic attitude".

"This project will lead me to acquire interdisciplinary, more specific skills, particularly with regard to reciprocal understanding between Islam and Christians," he notes.

Next stop: religious fundamentalism

This project is the continuation of a project that began at the Catholic University of Milan. "I worked on the unorthodox theological aspect of the annihilation of the Fire, the Islamic eschatological theory - he explains - which indicates that, similar to the Christian Apocatastasis, there will be a time when hell is empty, because after a purge all the souls of humans will be saved by the mercy of God."

He is grateful that the scholarship Marie Curie has allowed him to work and delve deeper into a second stage, more related to "the violence internship that emerged in the literary Koran". In addition to the current stay, in 2018 he plans a trip to the Catholic University of Lyon (France) to work within a group of research dedicated to topic of religious fundamentalism, which is directed by Professor Michel Younes.