Ida Magli (5 January 1925 – 21 February 2016) was an Italian cultural anthropologist, philosopher, feminist, essayist, and journalist.
[1][5] Her anthropological studies were mainly focused on the sphere of the sacred and the feminine conditions in light of the works of anthropologists such as Alfred Kroeber and Franz Boas.
[1] Her studies on religious anthropology were considered to be "innovative, supported by a secular and provocative thought that explored the key areas of the sacred.
"[1] Some of her research works focused on these which include Jesus of Nazareth (1982; Premio Brancati 1982), The Madonna (1987), Santa Teresa di Lisieux – A Romantic Girl of the Nineteenth Century (1994), Secular History of Religious Women (1995) and Ophelia's Mill: Men and Gods (2007).
For years, she regularly wrote articles in the newspapers la Repubblica, L'Espresso and Il Giornale.