Citizenship and religion in the Italian constitutions, 1796-1849 |
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Authors: | Eugenio F Biagini |
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Institution: | Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge CB2 3HU, UK |
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Abstract: | This article explores the link between religion and politics, religious liberty and the rights of religious minorities, by focusing on the constitutions which Italian states adopted and discarded from 1796 to 1849. It concerns questions about the ‘national character’ and the rights and duties of the citizen, and argues that - far from being ‘an outlet’ for material discontent - questions of religious identity and pluralism were integral to the Risorgimento definition of liberty. In this context, the author explores also the Mazzinian vision of a democratic republic inspired by an acephalous and non-hierarchical civil religion, similar to the Unitarian Transcendentalism practiced by some of his New York admirers - a far cry from the ‘religions of politics’ inspired by Saint Simon and Auguste Comte. |
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Keywords: | Religious liberty Pluralism Civil rights Constitutions Citizenship and liberty National character Civil religion Church-state relations in the 19th century |
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