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La questione del civismo
No full textIntroduzione al volume che raccoglie saggi e riflessioni critiche del Master in Civic Education, organizzato dall’Associazione Ethica di Asti, in collaborazione con il James Madison Program dell’Università di Princeton
A Party for the Mezzogiorno: Christian Democratic Party, the Agrarian Reform and the Government of Italy
No full textIn the 1Q5OS the Christian Democratic party turned its attention to agrarian reform projects and development funding for southern Italy. Its social and economic objectives were the destruction of latifundia, the creation of a class of small landowners, industrial and commercial development and the reduction of territorial inequalities. The ultimate goal, however, was political: to gain loyalty, allegiance and electoral consensus. To manage the economy and direct change, the party had to strengthen the organisation, form a ruling class, lay down territorial roots and widen the scope of its propaganda beyond anti-communism. Elections became the testing ground for the party's new reform strategies
, by Franco Baldasso, New York, Fordham University Press, 2002, 320 pp., $35.00 (soft cover), ISBN: 9781531502386/9781531502393
No full textIn Search of Order: Portrayal of Communists in Cold War Italy
Full text linkThis article analyzes the battle between Italian Communists and anti-Communists during the early Cold War. Without denying the critical role of high politics or the rivalry between Washington and Moscow, the article places the home front at the center of its analysis, using a bottom-up perspective. Drawing on the rhetoric, remembrances, and visual propaganda produced by Communists and anti-Communists alike, the article shifts the focus of attention away from governments and diplomacy and toward imagination and culture as agents of historical change. Looking beyond the institutional-administrative sphere of politics, the article explores the aspirations, emotions, expectations, and hopes formulated by Italians under conditions of existential uncertainty. The article concludes that the Cold War in Italy was, above all else, an internal contest between two parties over what the recent past meant and what would ensure a just and stable order for society
The Politics of the Abendland: Christian Democracy and the Idea of Europe After the Second World War
No full textThis article traces the deep cultural and experiential foundations that animated Christian Democratic Europeanism between the mid-1940s and the birth of the European Economic Community in the late 1950s. It shows how the language of Europeanness, generated in a period of multiple and intense crisis, congealed around symbolisms of Christianity and spirituality. More specifically, it connects the post-Second World War Christian Democratic vision of Europe to the 1920s German-Catholic articulation of the Abendland (the Christian West), understood as a supranational and symbolic space alternative to the Soviet Union and the United States and imbued with anti-materialist, anti-socialist and anti-liberal principles. The argument here is that, in mutated form and in context of the Cold War, this view sustained the political reconstruction of Western Europe after the horrors of the Second World War, the ‘European’ thought and language of Christian Democracy and the commitment to the project of European integration
Magic, religion, and the South: Notes on Ernesto De Martino
No full textThis article deals with the work of the Italian anthropologist, ethnographer, and historian of religions Ernesto De Martino (1908–1965) and, more specifically, with his ‘ethnographic expeditions’ in Southern Italy in the 1950s. Here, in some of the poorest regions of Italy, De Martino carefully examined the intermingling of popular religion, magic rituals, and official Catholicism. Beyond the specific context of post-World War II Southern Italy, De Martino’s work offers a sophisticated framework to study humanity’s relationship with the sacred, which can be helpful to historians, anthropologists, and sociologists examining religious practices, beliefs, and
experiences across time, space and place. More specifically, De Martino’s framework can encourage scholars to better foreground the influence of historical contexts on cultural forms and psychic constellations, the stratification and intersection of popular and official forms of religion, and the cultural and symbolic role of magic and religion
Antonio Gramsci on religion
No full textThis article provides an introduction to Antonio Gramsci’s understanding and analysis of religion. It shows that Gramsci’s conceptual constellation and key terms – from hegemony to organic intellectuals, from moral and intellectual reform to common sense – were formulated precisely in his critique to religion, and specifically to Catholicism in Italy. Rejecting the determinism and reductionism of orthodox Marxism, Gramsci saw religion as an active mode of experiencing social and historical reality, and came to conceptualize Marxism (the philosophy of praxis) as a new secular religion. The article demonstrates how Gramsci subtly and deftly problematized the relationship between religion, power, and politics in society. It will in particular foreground his astute reading of religion in practices and in common sense. Gramsci’s views on religion, this article argues, offer insightful theoretical tools that could be of considerable benefit for scholars (sociologists, anthropologists, and historians) examining religious phenomena in a global post-modern world
Rethinking the End of Christian Democracy
Full text linkL'articolo tratta del seminario svoltosi il 17 giugno 2024 presso l'Università Luiss di Roma sul tema ‘La fine della Democrazia Cristiana: Prospettive di una ricerca’. Il seminario la prima occasione di discussione e il lancio ufficiale del progetto di ricerca PRIN ‘La fine della Democrazia Cristiana: Il collasso di un sogno politico – voci dai margini’ condotto da un consorzio di quattro università: Luiss, Roma Tre, Bologna e Suor Orsola Benincasa, Napoli.This article is about the seminar held at Luiss University in Rome on 17 June 2024. The seminar focused on ‘The End of Christian Democracy: A New Direction for Research’ and was the first milestone and official launch of the PRIN research project ‘The End of Christian Democracy: The Collapse of a Political Dream – Voices from the Margins’, led by a consortium of four universities: Luiss, Roma Tre, Bologna and Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples
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