Post by account_disabled on Feb 20, 2024 5:32:47 GMT -5
This is the sense in which in the journalist Igino Giordani who joined Luigi Sturzos Popular Party defined fascism as a pagan political religion . I must clarify however that political religion is not exclusive to fascism but belongs to all totalitarianisms. It was for example a visible phenomenon in Bolshevik Russia in and but especially after the death of Lenin in . In this sense and in response to your question I would like to make some comments. of a more extensive movement that as you rightly say I have called sacralization of politics and that concerns all those movements that place politics at the center of human life and They make it a supreme entity to which even religion must submit.
In this framework we must differentiate what constitutes a political religion which is typical of totalitarian regimes from what constitutes a civil religion which characterizes democratic countries . We have in fact the example of Russia Mobile Number List United States where there is religious pluralism but when all believers from Protestants to Catholics through Jews Muslims or Sikhs gather and sing God Bless America they recognize a god who He is not the god of a specific religion he is the god of the United States. The United States is the first example of a sacralization of politics in which politics itself becomes the center of a devotion.
This spread and spread more decisively with the French Revolution with the Jacobin dictatorship with Napoleon and then during the th century in different countries and continents including Latin America where different political movements sought to define the ultimate meaning and purpose of life on this earth. The fact that fascism sought to establish itself as a spiritual totality of the State led it to contradictions with the religious field as you document in Contro Cesare. In your book you show a pragmatic relationship between fascism and the Catholic Church while pointing out the complexity that the fascist phenomenon represented for many Christians as there was a conflict between the primacy of Christ and that of Caesar the Duce.
In this framework we must differentiate what constitutes a political religion which is typical of totalitarian regimes from what constitutes a civil religion which characterizes democratic countries . We have in fact the example of Russia Mobile Number List United States where there is religious pluralism but when all believers from Protestants to Catholics through Jews Muslims or Sikhs gather and sing God Bless America they recognize a god who He is not the god of a specific religion he is the god of the United States. The United States is the first example of a sacralization of politics in which politics itself becomes the center of a devotion.
This spread and spread more decisively with the French Revolution with the Jacobin dictatorship with Napoleon and then during the th century in different countries and continents including Latin America where different political movements sought to define the ultimate meaning and purpose of life on this earth. The fact that fascism sought to establish itself as a spiritual totality of the State led it to contradictions with the religious field as you document in Contro Cesare. In your book you show a pragmatic relationship between fascism and the Catholic Church while pointing out the complexity that the fascist phenomenon represented for many Christians as there was a conflict between the primacy of Christ and that of Caesar the Duce.