This book aims to understand the European political debate about contentious issues,
framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century. It …

Una profonda trasformazione politica e sociale ha investito il nostro paese negli ultimi
vent'anni. Un cambiamento che non poteva non coinvolgere il mondo dell'associazionismo …

Il volume ripercorre la traiettoria dei movimenti cattolici che, tra la fine del XX e l'inizio del
XXI secolo, hanno fatto della lotta contro “la teoria del gender”, le unioni civili, l'educazione …

Religion can influence party politics in several ways: directly, through the activity of explicitly
religious parties; indirectly, both through the lobbying activity of institutional actors such as …

This book presents an innovative exploration of the rise of political forces that have
coalesced around the anti-gender movement, shaping strategies that advocate novel …

There is a peculiar relationship between religion and the political system in twenty-first-
century Italy. In particular, the collapse of the Democrazia Cristiana party has favored the …

For centuries, Rome and Istanbul have been representing and epitomizing two empires and
two entities with both significant spiritual and temporal power: the Papacy and the Caliphate …

Clerical 'non-negotiable values' were actively promoted by right-wing governments in the
2000s, the Monti government that replaced them was strongly supported by the Vatican and …

In this article we focus on how changes in political structure influence religion. Communion
and Liberation (CL) is widely known in Italy as a very important Catholic movement whose …

The role of religion in politics is still understudied as a consequence of the so-called
“secularization paradigm”, which has been hegemonic in twentieth-century social sciences …