Religious Freedom in Italy : : An Impossible Paradigm? / / Alessandro Ferrari.

Italy, seat of the Pope and Vatican City, has a long and difficult relationship with religious freedom. Often identified as a Catholic nation par excellence, Italy owes its unification to a political class that advocated the separation of Church and State. Home of the Concordat, contemporary Italy r...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
Carocci editore, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2023
2024
Language:English
Series:Religion and Society , 88
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 201 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introductory note
  • 1 The right to religious freedom in the liberal era: from tolerance to freedom
  • 2 The Conciliazione: fascism and its ecclesiastical policy
  • 3 The right to religious freedom in the republican Constitution
  • 4 The right to religious freedom: from text to action
  • 5 The Villa Madama Accords of 1984: a new right to religious freedom for the Catholic Church
  • 6 Beyond the Catholic Church: the era of pluralism and agreements
  • 7 The Italian model faces change: policy shortcomings
  • 8 Constitutional judges and the pyramid of religions: the difficulty of procedure without politics
  • 9 The right to religious freedom of a nation-state: the ‘Catholic invariant’ in a changing society
  • Epilogue The Italian right to religious freedom, specificity, and secularisation in the Euro-Mediterranean area
  • Bibliography
  • Index