Università Roma Tre

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

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