The religious fact between society and politics in the Italian Modern and Contemporary history textbooks
Abstract
This contribution analyses the approach of the Italian Modern and Contemporary history textbooks, adopted within university programs, toward the religious fact, considered through its bonds with political, social and cultural phenomena. In this bonds is set up the base for the religious fact’s resilience in ‘modernity’: in the legitimacy that religious fact provides both to the principle of authority and to the resistance to any political and cultural power; in the aggregating or disruptive effect generated by religious identity and allegiance both in global and local politics.
L’intervento analizza l’approccio della manualistica universitaria di argomento storico moderno e contemporaneo al fatto religioso, considerato soprattutto nel suo intreccio con fenomeni di lunga durata, politici, sociali, culturali. Proprio attraverso l’inscindibile legame con tali fenomeni il fatto religioso pone le basi della sua resilienza nella modernità: attraverso cioè la legittimazione che esso conferisce al principio di autorità così come alla resistenza ad ogni potere, politico o culturale, quale fattore di unità o movente al conflitto nella politica, in senso lato, locale e globale.
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