As If God Existed : Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy /
Religion and liberty are often thought to be mutual enemies: if religion has a natural ally, it is authoritarianism--not republicanism or democracy. But in this book, Maurizio Viroli, a leading historian of republican political thought, challenges this conventional wisdom. He argues that political e...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Republics protected by God
- Images of the civil religion
- Republican and monarchical religion
- A religion that instills virtue
- Sacred laws and sacred republics
- Republican religion and religious reform
- A religion to live free
- Within the soul
- The twilight of republican religion
- Without God
- After the revolution
- The new alliance
- Literature and hymns of the religion of liberty
- Apostles and martyrs
- Masters
- Regrets and the quest for new faiths
- Two clashing religions
- In the name of Christ
- Inner liberty
- The religion of liberty
- A religion that instills hope
- The religion of duty
- As if God existed
- Only a god can expel a god
- Leaving life
- Twilight.