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Казьмина, Ольга Евгеньевна. "Миграционный кризис в Европе и христианское милосердие: история одного прихода." Вестник антропологии (Herald of Anthropology), no. 4 (52) (December 12, 2020): 20–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.33876/2311-0546/2020-52-4/20-28.
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В статье на примере Италии анализируется социальная работа католических организаций, адресованная беженцам и иммигрантам. Работа написана с использованием полевого материала автора, собранного в одном из католических приходов Болоньи. Цель статьи – проанализировать отношение к миграционной ситуации в Европе ее крупнейшей конфессии – Римско-католической церкви – и изучить формы социального служения католических организаций среди беженцев и иммигрантов. Актуальность темы определяется тем, что задача адаптации беженцев и иммигрантов и их интеграции в принимающее общество остро стоит в настоящее время во многих европейских странах. Государства ищут приемлемые для себя пути этой интеграции. Законы, регулирующие иммиграцию и определяющие статус беженца и иммигранта, часто становятся предметом жарких политических споров. От светского дискурса о миграционном кризисе и мигрантах, зачастую подчеркивающего прежде всего права той или иной стороны, отличается дискурс религиозный. Позиция христианских организаций Европы заключается прежде всего в сострадании к беженцам и мигрантам и стремлении улучшить их долю. Миграционный кризис в Европе сделал европейские христианские организации более заметными и способствовал деприватизации религии в сильно секуляризованном обществе. Христианские организации, и в частности приходы и благотворительные структуры Римско-католической церкви стали важными акторами в выстраивании отношений с мигрантами и их интеграции в европейское общество. Ключевые слова: Миграция, Европа, Италия, Римско-католическая церковь, социальное служение. The article, using Italy as an example, analyzes the social work of Catholic organizations, addressed to refugees and immigrants. It is based on the author's field material, collected in one of the Catholic parishes of Bologna. The goal of the article is to analyze the attitudes to the migration situation in Europe from the part of its largest denomination – the Roman Catholic Church – and to study forms of social service of Catholic organizations among refugees and immigrants. The significance of the topic is determined by the fact that now many European states face the challenge of adaptation of refugees and immigrants and their integration into the host society. They are looking for acceptable ways of this integration. The laws that regulate immigration and stipulate the status of a refugee and an immigrant often provoke heated political debates. The secular discourse about the migration crisis, which usually emphasizes the rights of one of the sides, differs from the religious discourse. The position of Christian organizations of Europe consists first of all in the compassion to refugees and migrants and in the hope to possibly improve their fate. The migration crisis in Europe made European Christian organizations more visible and contributed to deprivatization of religion in a highly secular society. Christian organizations in general and Roman Catholic parishes and charity structures in particular became important actors in building relations with migrants and integrating them into the European society. Key Words Migration, Europe, Italy, Roman Catholic Church, social service.
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Martin, Simon. "From Cycling Priests to the ‘Sportsman's Pope’. Italy, Sport and the Catholic Church." European Review 19, no. 4 (August 30, 2011): 545–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798711000184.
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This article surveys the Catholic Church's exploitation of sport in Liberal (1861–1922), Fascist (1922–1943), and post-war Italy. It examines how and why the Church overcame its initial reticence to embrace sport and turn it into a fundamental pillar of an alternative culture that challenged the monopoly of national sporting federations. Following the rise of Fascism, sport became one of the principal means by which the Church resisted a complete takeover by the regime. Analysis of the devout Catholic cyclist Gino Bartali reveals how the Church maintained its identity and tradition of sporting independence despite the inevitable suppression of Catholic sporting organisations. Culminating in an examination of the ‘immortalisation’ of Bartali after his win in the 1948 Tour De France – a victory popularly credited with saving Italy from civil war – the article illuminates the processes by which sport became a central feature of Catholicism in national life. It highlights the Church's contribution to the development of Italian sport, assesses the wider impact of sport's role in forming alternative cultures, and argues that sport perfectly positioned the Church to respond to the demands of Reconstruction Italy and provided opportunities to secure a post-war Christian Democratic society.
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Yazkova, Veronika. "“Post-Truth” in the COVID World: Position of the Church and the Catholic Community in Italy." Contemporary Europe, no. 100 (December 31, 2020): 195–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.15211/soveurope72020195205.
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The article deals with the attitude of the Catholic Church in Italy toward the “fake news” phenomenon in the mass media of the COVID and post-COVID world. Catholic hierarchs and Pope Francis personally condemned the system promoting fakes on the Web, their creators and consumers ‒ conscious or unconscious “transponders” of lies. The Church and the Catholic media counter fake messages via such important tools as “positive” journalism, fact checking sites, training users in media literacy, critical thinking. At the same time, the actual legalization of “post-truth” in social networks as a form of alternative reality is a wake-up call. The crisis of confidence in authorities, official media, relativity of key concepts and ethical norms became a reality. “Post-truth” society as one of the manifestations of digital mentality is a serious challenge for the Catholic Church. Acts of Communication in the digital environment, study of the laws regulating relationships development on digital platforms open up wide opportunities for evangelism, missionary work, mediation at the micro and macro levels, as well as building socially oriented relations in the world of “post-truth”.
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Yazkova, Veronika. "Catholic Church in Italy in the Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic." Contemporary Europe 97, no. 4 (August 1, 2020): 165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15211/soveurope42020165175.
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ADAMSON, WALTER L. "Fascism and Political Religion in Italy: A Reassessment." Contemporary European History 23, no. 1 (January 6, 2014): 43–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777313000519.
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AbstractThis article challenges the currently dominant understanding of Italian Fascism as a ‘political religion’, arguing that this view depends upon an outdated model of secularisation and treats Fascism's sacralisation of politics in isolation from church–state relations, the Catholic Church itself and popular religious experience in Italy. Based upon an historiographical review and analysis of what we now know about secularisation and these other religious phenomena, the article suggests that only when we grasp Italian Fascist political religion in relation to secularisation properly understood, and treat it in the context of religious experience and its history as a whole can the nature of Italian Fascism be adequately grasped.
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Wright, A. D. "Relations between church and state: Catholic developments in Spanish-ruled Italy of the counter-reformation." History of European Ideas 9, no. 4 (January 1988): 385–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0191-6599(88)90138-6.
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Logan, Oliver. "ITALIAN IDENTITY: CATHOLIC RESPONSES TO SECULARIST DEFINITIONS, c.1910–48." Modern Italy 2 (August 1997): 52–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532949708454778.
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In united Italy, assertions by Catholic militants about their nation's true identity have been bound up with polemic against secularist forces and with claims about the position due to the Church in Italian society. They have insisted that Italy's authentic traditions are Catholic and that her true greatness resides in her being the heart of Christian civilization. Hostile or threatening ideologies, e.g. idealist philosophy and Communism, have been stigmatized as alien to Italian tradition. In the face of Fascism, with which the ‘Catholic world's’ relations were ambivalent, there was a major ideological campaign to assert a Catholic definition of the keyword romanità. The way in which Catholic theoreticians have defined the ‘nation’ in organicist terms have been linked to strategies of ideological defence against state forms, whether liberal or Fascist, perceived to be overweening.
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Serapiglia, Daniele. "Fé e futebol. Muscular Catholicism between Italy and Portugal in the European context (1922-1958)." Lusotopie 18, no. 1 (March 12, 2019): 66–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17683084-12341732.
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Abstract This article argues that Portugal was not immune to the experience of Muscular Catholicism, through which the Church tried to strengthen its own imagined community after 1945. This was an imagined community that the Church hoped that it would involve the whole continent starting from Italy, where the “Catholic sport” was trying to take the place of the “fascist” sport. Indeed, the Church overcame its distrust of football in this period, making it one of the symbols of its “banal internationalism”, and one of the means by which Pius XII tried to make the idea of a totalitarian Church a reality, as suggested by Pius XI.
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Panara, Carlo. "In the Name of God: State and Religion in Contemporary Italy." Religion & Human Rights 6, no. 1 (2011): 75–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187103211x543653.
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AbstractDuring the last few years the influence of the Catholic Church on law-making and government policies in Italy has dramatically increased. The Italian Episcopal Conference established a solid alliance with the Centre-Right led by the media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. This political situation favoured the introduction of a number of hyper-conservative policies on ethical matters, from artificial insemination to abortion. In contrast, the influence of the Church was not significant in other key areas such as immigration policy. This article argues that the Church-inspired hyper-conservatism has led to the introduction of considerable restrictions to individual rights and freedoms. This situation is undermining the secular character of the Italian State and the original liberal-democratic inspiration of the Constitution.
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Musatova, Tatyana. "Emperor Nicholas I, collector and philanthropist. Days 9/22 and 10/23 December 1845 in Bologna." Stephanos Peer reviewed multilanguage scientific journal 54, no. 4 (July 31, 2022): 50–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24249/2309-9917-2022-54-4-50-67.
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Bologna with its eldest university in Europe was an important point of Emperor Nicholas I’s grand tour of Italy in 1845. In Rome the tsar talked with the Pope on problems of inter-church relations, then the rest of the time in the eternal city and along the entire route (from Palermo to Naples, from Florence to Bologna and Venice) he showed himself as a prominent collector, patron of the arts, who adopted his parents love for Italian art. The tsar had a special reverence for the Bologna painting school, the Bolognese Baroque style, which, along with the Roman Baroque, was refl ected in his purchases for the New Hermitage. Only in Bologna he acquired the originals of classical painting (Guercino, Agostino Caracci). There he practically completed the formation of his famous collection of Italian neoclassical sculpture (C. Baruzzi) and ordered copies from the local Pinacoteca of such a high level that they, having partially reached our time, were honored to enter the GE painting collection. Russian monarch’s visit is commemorated only in Rome and Bologna by commemorative plaques, the fi rst of which is offi cial, and the second is an “ordinary” Bolognese marquis, who considered it an honor to visit his palace by the Russian tsar.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bologna (Italy) – Relations – Catholic Church"
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Sénié, Jean. "Entre l'aigle, les Lys et la tiare : les relations des cardinaux d'Este avec le royaume de France (environ 1530 - environ 1590), entre diplomatie et affirmation de soi." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL128.
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Ma recherche porte sur l’action diplomatique et religieuse des cardinaux d’Este et sur leur rôle de médiateurs entre l’Italie et la France. L’objectif est de faire apparaître les fondements géopolitiques de leur action, en prenant soin de faire ressortir les différentes échelles de leur action. L’emprise territoriale des cardinaux d’Este se manifeste, en effet, par l’existence de relais italiens et français. La présence d’Ippolito II d’Este et de Luigi d’Este est étudiée aussi bien sous l’angle de leur présence matérielle que sous celui de leur participation aux enjeux politiques du temps. La recherche s’inscrit à la croisée de plusieurs historiographies. Tout d’abord, elle cherche à affiner la connaissance de la sociologie des cardinaux au XVIe siècle. Ensuite, elle reprend les apports de l’histoire des relations internationales pour revenir sur le rôle des deux cardinaux d’Este comme supports de la couronne française à Rome et médiateurs pontificaux à la cour de France, et étudier leurs pratiques. Enfin, l’analyse vise à reprendre la catégorie d’humanisme chrétien, conceptualisée par Erasme, pour voir si elle constitue une ligne directrice de leur conduite religieuse. En prêtant attention à leur démarche sur la scène internationale, l’étude vise également à montrer que se dessine une identité catholique qui n’est pas hétérodoxe, mais s’insère bien dans la plus stricte orthodoxie confessionnelle. En revanche, la traversée des monts entraîne des réajustements sur le plan de l’expression et de la représentation de la foiMy research focuses on the d’Este cardinals’ diplomatic and religious actions and on their role as mediators between Italy and France. My objective is to uncover the geopolitical foundations of their actions whilst highlighting the different scales thereof. The territorial emprise of the d’Este cardinals is actually revealed by the existence of Italian and French relays. I study the presence of Ippolito II and Luigi d’Este both in terms of their material presence and their participation in the political stakes of the time. This research combines multiple forms of historiography. First, it develops the existing knowledge of the cardinals’ sociology in the sixteenth century. It then considers contributions from the history of international relations and how they pertain to the roles of the two d’Este cardinals as supporters of the French crown in Rome and pontifical mediators in the French court and studies their methods. I conclude by analysing Christian humanism as conceptualised by Erasmus to see whether it constitutes a guideline for their religious conduct. By examining their modus operandi on the international scene, this thesis argues that a Catholic identity is emerging which is not heterodox, but rather which fits into the strictest denominational orthodoxy. Nevertheless, crossing the mountains leads to readjustments in manners of expressing and representing the Catholic faith
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Turiano, Annalaura. "De la pastorale migratoire à la coopération technique : missionnaires italiens en Égypte : les salésiens et l’enseignement professionnel (1890-1970)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3003.
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En 1896, les missionnaires salésiens fondent une école des arts et métiers à Alexandrie destinée à un prolétariat immigré d’origine européenne. Dans les années suivantes, la mission multiplie les ouvertures d’écoles dans les villes du Delta et du Canal, mais sa réputation est avant tout liée aux filières professionnelles. Menacées de disparition sous Nasser, à l’instar des autres établissements d’enseignement étrangers, les écoles salésiennes se maintiennent dans le cadre d’accords de coopération bilatérale entre l’Égypte et l’Italie. Ce travail interroge la longévité de la présence missionnaire et la durabilité d’un ensemble d’établissements scolaires au-delà de dates retenues comme points de rupture entre une Égypte coloniale et postcoloniale. Il est question de l’investissement éducatif sur un modèle étranger d’enseignement professionnel et du rôle que les écoles missionnaires ont joué dans la formation de communautés de métiers. Au miroir des établissements salésiens, c’est la mise en place d’un enseignement technique en Égypte, les enjeux éducatifs, économiques et politiques qu’il incarne qu’on entrevoit. Par ailleurs, l’histoire des missionnaires salésiens et de leur réseau scolaire s’inscrit dans un cadre plus large : l’histoire des migrations méditerranéennes vers l’Égypte, l’histoire de l’Église, de la mission et de son aggiornamento et celle des relations italo-égyptiennes. C’est une histoire tout à la fois locale et globale qu’il s’agit d’éclairer. En rupture avec les approches nationaliste et nostalgique, ce travail se veut une contribution originale à l’histoire des missions et de l’enseignement étranger en ÉgypteIn 1896 the Salesian missionaries established a school of Arts and Crafts in Alexandria, which was intended for working class European immigrants. In the following years, the mission founded other schools in the Delta and Suez Canal regions, but its reputation was particularly tied to its vocational training institutes. Threatened with disappearance under Nasser, like others foreign schools, the Salesian institutes managed to survive within the framework of Italo-Egyptian cooperation agreements. This dissertation questions the longevity of the missionary presence and the durability of the Salesian school network, hence expanding the boundaries between what is commonly delineated as colonial and post-colonial Egypt. The educational investment that Egyptian families made in Salesian vocational schools is analysed as well as the role the mission played in training trades and professional communities. Through the lens of the Salesian schools we catch a glimpse of the emergence of vocational education in Egypt, its educational, economic and political stakes. Moreover, the history of the Salesian missionaries and their schools is analysed within a broader framework: the history of Mediterranean migrations to Egypt, Church and mission histories as well as their aggiornamento, and eventually the history of Italo-Egyptian relations. The aim is to shed light on a history which is concurrently local and global. Distancing itself both from nationalistic and nostalgic approaches, this work aims to provide an original contribution to the history of missions and foreign education in Egypt
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REINHARDT, Nicole. "Macht und Ohnmacht der Verflechtung: Rom und Bologna unter Paul Y :Studien zur fruehneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik im Kirchenstaat." Doctoral thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5955.
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Defence date: 31 May 1997Examining board: Prof. Dr. Miroslav Hroc, EUI ; Prof. Dr. Michael Müller, Halle (supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Paolo Prodi, Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico Trento ; Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reinhard, Freiburg (external supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Luise Schorn-Schütte, Potsdam
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Turiano, Anna-Laura. "De la pastorale migratoire à la coopération technique : missionnaires italiens en Égypte : les salésiens et l’enseignement professionnel (1890-1970)." Thesis, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016AIXM3003.
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En 1896, les missionnaires salésiens fondent une école des arts et métiers à Alexandrie destinée à un prolétariat immigré d’origine européenne. Dans les années suivantes, la mission multiplie les ouvertures d’écoles dans les villes du Delta et du Canal, mais sa réputation est avant tout liée aux filières professionnelles. Menacées de disparition sous Nasser, à l’instar des autres établissements d’enseignement étrangers, les écoles salésiennes se maintiennent dans le cadre d’accords de coopération bilatérale entre l’Égypte et l’Italie. Ce travail interroge la longévité de la présence missionnaire et la durabilité d’un ensemble d’établissements scolaires au-delà de dates retenues comme points de rupture entre une Égypte coloniale et postcoloniale. Il est question de l’investissement éducatif sur un modèle étranger d’enseignement professionnel et du rôle que les écoles missionnaires ont joué dans la formation de communautés de métiers. Au miroir des établissements salésiens, c’est la mise en place d’un enseignement technique en Égypte, les enjeux éducatifs, économiques et politiques qu’il incarne qu’on entrevoit. Par ailleurs, l’histoire des missionnaires salésiens et de leur réseau scolaire s’inscrit dans un cadre plus large : l’histoire des migrations méditerranéennes vers l’Égypte, l’histoire de l’Église, de la mission et de son aggiornamento et celle des relations italo-égyptiennes. C’est une histoire tout à la fois locale et globale qu’il s’agit d’éclairer. En rupture avec les approches nationaliste et nostalgique, ce travail se veut une contribution originale à l’histoire des missions et de l’enseignement étranger en ÉgypteIn 1896 the Salesian missionaries established a school of Arts and Crafts in Alexandria, which was intended for working class European immigrants. In the following years, the mission founded other schools in the Delta and Suez Canal regions, but its reputation was particularly tied to its vocational training institutes. Threatened with disappearance under Nasser, like others foreign schools, the Salesian institutes managed to survive within the framework of Italo-Egyptian cooperation agreements. This dissertation questions the longevity of the missionary presence and the durability of the Salesian school network, hence expanding the boundaries between what is commonly delineated as colonial and post-colonial Egypt. The educational investment that Egyptian families made in Salesian vocational schools is analysed as well as the role the mission played in training trades and professional communities. Through the lens of the Salesian schools we catch a glimpse of the emergence of vocational education in Egypt, its educational, economic and political stakes. Moreover, the history of the Salesian missionaries and their schools is analysed within a broader framework: the history of Mediterranean migrations to Egypt, Church and mission histories as well as their aggiornamento, and eventually the history of Italo-Egyptian relations. The aim is to shed light on a history which is concurrently local and global. Distancing itself both from nationalistic and nostalgic approaches, this work aims to provide an original contribution to the history of missions and foreign education in Egypt
Books on the topic "Bologna (Italy) – Relations – Catholic Church"
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Paolo, Prodi, Paolini Lorenzo, and Istituto per la storia della chiesa di Bologna., eds. Storia della chiesa di Bologna. Bergamo: Bolis, 1997.
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Scottà, Antonio. Giacomo Della Chiesa arcivescovo di Bologna, 1908-1914: L'"ottimo noviziato" episcopale di papa Benedetto XV. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2002.
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SS. Salvatore (Church : Bologna, Italy). Biblioteca. La chiesa e la biblioteca del SS. Salvatore in Bologna: Centro spirituale e luogo di cultura. Firenze: Vallecchi, 1995.
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Italy and the Vatican: The 1984 concordat between church and state. New York: P. Lang, 1989.
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Macht und Ohnmacht der Verflechtung: Rom und Bologna unter Paul V. ; Studien zur frühneuzeitlichen Mikropolitik im Kirchenstaat. Tübingen: Bibliotheca Academica, 2000.
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Divas in the convent: Nuns, music, and defiance in seventeenth-century Italy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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Manenti, Claudia. Il territorio di pianura della Diocesi di Bologna: Identità e presenza della Chiesa : urbanistica, socio-demografia, edifici di culto e pastorale di un paesaggio in trasformazione. Bologna: Editrici Compositori, 2011.
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Carlo, Carla Di. Il libro in Benedetto XIV: Dalla "domestica libraria" alla biblioteca universale. Bologna: Pàtron, 2000.
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Diplomazia e autogoverno a Bologna nel Quattrocento, 1392-1466: Fonti per la storia delle istituzioni. Bologna: CLUEB, 2009.
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Reinhard, Härtel, ed. I patti con il patriarcato di Aquileia: 880-1255. Roma: Viella, 2005.
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Villani, Stefano. "Conclusion." In Making Italy Anglican, 161–66. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197587737.003.0012.
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The history of Italian translations of the Book of Common Prayer is a story of failure—or rather, of a series of interconnected failures that stretched over a period of almost three hundred years, starting from the failure of Wotton and Bedell’s seventeenth-century project to foster a schism in the Venetian Church. The subsequent failure of the Anglican missionary societies in their nineteenth-century project to support the transformation of the Catholic Church in accordance with the Anglican model erased the memory of these attempts. These events serve, however, as an exemplary illustration of the nature of English relations with Italy and the Catholic world in general.
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Pibiri, Roberta, and Stefania Palmisano. "‘We are all Goddesses’: female sacred paths in Italy." In Women and Religion, 191–206. Policy Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447336358.003.0011.
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This chapter reflects on the relations between gender and religion, by analysing a new form of spirituality coming from the Anglophone world — Goddess Spirituality — which has arrived in Italy in the new millennium. Goddess Spirituality is one of the most important and challenging forms, where the movement of rediscovering paths of the sacred female is evident. As some studies demonstrate, while an ever increasing proportion of women leave the Catholic Church, the majority do not redirect their spiritual seeking outside the Catholic milieu by approaching the world of so-called alternative spiritualities. Goddess Spirituality's contemporaneous spiritual/secular orientation is a source of empowerment for its adherents because it is capable of integrating into its symbolic, axiological universe a gender concept with a sacred dimension.
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Wight, Martin. "Review of E. H. Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919–1939 (London: Macmillan, 1946)." In International Relations and Political Philosophy, 315–16. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198848219.003.0024.
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Professor Carr relies on an antithesis: ‘Every political situation contains mutually incompatible elements of Utopia and reality, of morality and power.’ Carr provides ‘the most comprehensive modern restatement, other than Marxist or Fascist, of the Hobbesian view of politics. It is from politics that both morality and law derive their authority. For Hobbes, the kingdom of the fairies was the Roman Catholic Church, seducing mankind with its enchantments. For Professor Carr, it is the League of Nations, which is no other than the ghost of the deceased Pax Britannica.’ Carr’s tome is ‘the one lasting intellectual monument of the policy of appeasement’. The first edition, published in 1939, praised Chamberlain’s policy as ‘a reaction of realism against Utopianism’, and defended the 1938 Munich agreement whereby Britain, France, Germany, and Italy agreed to the cession to Berlin of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. In the 1946 second edition ‘these passages are omitted’, Wight notes. ‘Wielding the realist critique at the expense of the moral critique, it is natural that Professor Carr should have moved since 1939 from support of collaboration with Germany to support of collaboration with Russia. But the Teheran–Yalta theory of world relationships is itself being swept from present realism into past Utopianism.’ In Wight’s view, ‘The student could have no better introduction to the fundamental problems of politics, provided always that he reads it side by side with Mr. Leonard Woolf’s deadly reply in “The War for Peace”.’