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Italian ModernitiesCatholic Modernities: Epics of a Christian Nation

Italian Modernities: Catholic Modernities: Epics of a Christian Nation [As we have argued in the opening chapter, Italian political thought and cultural identity is best analyzed within a theoretical framework of multiple and competing modernities. Approaching modernity as a more open-ended ‘interpretative space’ also—and significantly—implies to engage the both open and hidden interconnections and tensions between religion and politics, between sacred and secular. This engagement becomes particularly dense and significant for a proper understanding of modern Italian history of politics and society. As we shall see, it was very much via a confrontation between sacred and secular that differentiating attempts of articulating alternative versions of Italian modernity developed. In this chapter, we shall reconstruct how this led to the formation of what can be termed a Catholic modernity.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ModernitiesCatholic Modernities: Epics of a Christian Nation

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
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978-1-137-50155-4
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57 –90
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10.1057/978-1-137-49212-8_3
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[As we have argued in the opening chapter, Italian political thought and cultural identity is best analyzed within a theoretical framework of multiple and competing modernities. Approaching modernity as a more open-ended ‘interpretative space’ also—and significantly—implies to engage the both open and hidden interconnections and tensions between religion and politics, between sacred and secular. This engagement becomes particularly dense and significant for a proper understanding of modern Italian history of politics and society. As we shall see, it was very much via a confrontation between sacred and secular that differentiating attempts of articulating alternative versions of Italian modernity developed. In this chapter, we shall reconstruct how this led to the formation of what can be termed a Catholic modernity.]

Published: Oct 1, 2016

Keywords: French Revolution; National Politics; Political Democracy; Modern Democracy; Christian Civilization

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