Qual è la religione degli italiani?
In the face of a rooted and widespread subjectivity of behaviour, how can we be surprised by the fact that in Italy we have never arrived at a "civil religion"? This is the guiding theme of this book, which provides an analysis of Italian society that goes beyond the religious aspect. We ask ourselves, in fact, whether the absence of a civil religion cannot be traced to the absence of a religiousness experienced without distinction between the private and public sphere. In short, we could argue that Italy does not have a civil religion either entirely secular, as France has had for two centuries, or liberal-patriotic-religious as in the United States, because its religion does not feature a compact interweave between public and private such, for instance, as that of Lutheran Germany.