Beyond Catholicism : Heresy, Mysticism, and Apocalypse in Italian Culture / edited by Fabrizio De Donno, 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):

Religion-History.

Civilization-History.

Europe-History-476-1492.

Europe-History.

Italy-History.

Social history.

History of Religion.

Cultural History.

History of Medieval Europe.

European History.

History of Italy.

Social History.

Local Subjects:

History of Religion.

Cultural History.

History of Medieval Europe.

European History.

History of Italy.

Social History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Bibles, Saints, and Heresies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy; 1 Romancing the Gospel: Italian Vernacular Scripture in the Middle Ages; 2 Preaching, Heresy, and the Writing of Female Hagiography; 3 Michelangelo's Last Judgement: A Lutheran Belief?; 4 Exchanging Poetry with Theology: Ludovico Castelvetro between Humanism and Heresy; 5 Ferrante Pallavicino's La Retorica Delle Puttane (1642): Blasphemy, Heresy, and Alleged Pornography

6 "Providential Divining": Heresies and Controversies in Giambattista Vico's Scienza NuovaPart II Religious Expansion and Pluralism in Modern Italy; 7 Metaliterary Fogazzaro: Bovarysme and Mysticism in Malombra (1881); 8 Catholicism and Neorealism: Zavattini's Contribution to Universalia-Produced Prima Comunione (Blasetti, 1950); 9 No New Earth: Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Italian Nuclear-War Literature; 10 Defining the Apocalypse: An Old Word in New Contexts, According to Eco, Baricco, Fo, and Fallaci; 11 Wu Ming's Reformation: Mythopoesis, Utopia, and Global Politics

12 Believing in Weakness: Gianni Vattimo's Postmodernist Interpretation of Christianity13 Silent Revolution in the Country of the Pope: From Catholicism as "The Religion of Italians" to the Pluralistic "Italy of Religions"; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781349465262

1349465267

9781137342034

113734203X

OCLC:

867767658