| THE ITALIAN FASCISM: THE FIRST TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL RELIGION
(objectives)
By the end of the course students will be able to: recognize the importance of the symbolic dimension in politics; put in relation secularization, politics and religion in modern society and grasp in a better way the contours of the modern political experiment (up to today fundamentalism); understand the main features of Totalitarianism; identify the main aspects of the Fascist regime, its values, its institutions, its leaders; understand the historical significance of Fascism, and its dramatic danger as a wrong answer to the problems of mass society; identify the myths, rituals, symbols, monuments and other spectacles of Fascist Italy; discover the mechanism of deep fascination provoked by mass rituals.
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Code
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21810040 |
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Language
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ENG |
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Type of certificate
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Profit certificate
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Credits
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8
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Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code
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M-STO/04
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Contact Hours
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64
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Type of Activity
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Elective activities
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Teacher
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MORO RENATO
(syllabus)
1. WHAT IS THE “SACRALISATION OF POLITICS”? 2. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND A NEW RELIGION FOR THE CITIZEN 3. THE RELIGION OF THE NATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY 4. A CIVIL RELIGION FOR LIBERAL ITALY (1870-1914) 5. WORLD WAR I AND THE SACRALISATION OF POLITICS: WAR CEMETERIES, WAR MEMORIALS, THE CULT OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER 6. THE ORIGINS OF FASCIST RELIGION: SQUADRISMO AND THE “SACRED MILITIA” 7. FASCISM AT THE POWER: THE CONQUEST OF THE CULT OF THE NATION 8. FASCISM AT THE POWER: THE IMPOSITION OF THE SYMBOLS, RITES AND CALENDAR OF THE FASCIST REVOLUTION 9. FASCIST RELIGION AND CATHOLIC RELIGION 10. A DIFFERENT APPROACH: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN THE CASE OF GERMAN NAZISM 11. “COLLECTIVE HARMONY”: THE MASS RITES OF THE FASCIST REGIME 12. TOTALITARIANISM AND ART: THE NAZI, SOVIET AND FASCIST CASES 13. THE TEMPLES OF FAITH FOR THE “NEW ITALIANS” 14. THE CULT OF THE DUCE 15. CHRISTIANS DENOUNCE TOTALITARIAN RELIGIONS (1930-1938) 17. THE SACRALISATION OF POLITICS AFTER WORLD WAR II: COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, NEW STATES IN AFRICA AND ASIA, OLD DEMOCRACIES 18. AN INTERPRETATION: PSEUDO-RELIGIONS? PROPAGANDA? TRUE FAITH? AN ANSWER TO MODERN ANXIETIES? 19. AN INTERPRETATION: THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CIVIL RELIGIONS AND POLITICAL RELIGIONS
(reference books)
- Reader
- Further materials will be assigned by teacher in class
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Dates of beginning and end of teaching activities
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Delivery mode
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Traditional
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Attendance
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Mandatory
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Evaluation methods
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Written test
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