Beyond Catholicism : heresy, mysticism, and apocalypse in Italian culture / edited by Fabrizio De Donno and Simon Gilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Donno, Fabrizio, editor.

Gilson, Simon A., editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Italy--Church history.

Italy.

Church history.

Christianity and culture--Italy.

Physical Description:

viii, 332 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Bringing together scholarly contributors from a wide variety of disciplines, Beyond Catholicism excavates the interconnections between religious belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to the present. In particular, these essays explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, of authority and time, of good and evil, and of human collectivities. Ranging from Biblical interpretation and eschatology to secular messianism, religious politics, and modern/postmodern narratives, they expand our understanding of the relationship between the history of faith and Italian culture, as well as between religious belief and secularism. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Bibles, Saints, and Heresies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

1 Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages / Brenda Deen Schildgen Schildgen, Brenda Deen 15

2 Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography / Beverly Mayne Kienzle Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, Travis Allen Stevens Stevens, Travis Allen 33

3 Michelangelo's Last Judgement: A Lutheran Belief? / Ambra Moroncini Moroncini, Ambra 55

4 Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy / Stefano Jossa Jossa, Stefano 77

5 Ferrante Pallavicino's La Retorica Delle Puttane (1642): Blasphemy, Heresy, and Alleged Pornography / Letizia Panizza Panizza, Letizia 105

6 "Providential Divining": Heresies and Controversies in Giambattista Vico's Scienza Nuova / Daragh O'Connell O'Connell, Daragh 125

Part II Religious Expansion and Pluralism in Modern Italy

7 Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881) / Olivia Santovetti Santovetti, Olivia 147

8 Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini's Contribution to Universaha-Produced Prima Comunione (Blasetti, 1950) / Daniela Treveri Gennari Gennari, Daniela Treveri 171

9 No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature / Florian Mussgnug Mussgnug, Florian 195

10 Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, According to Eco, Baricco, Fo, and Fallaci / Gillian Ania Ania, Gillian 217

11 Wu Ming's Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia, and Global Politics / Fabrizio De Donno Donno, Fabrizio De 239

12 Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo's Postmodernist Interpretation of Christianity / Michael Bacon Bacon, Michael 273

13 Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as "The Religion of Italians" to the Pluralistic "Italy of Religions" / Stefano Allievi Allievi, Stefano 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137342027

1137342021

OCLC:

857717674