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基本説明
Shows, a religious spirit that regarded moral and political liberty as the highest goods of human life was fundamental to establishing and preserving liberty.
Full Description
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 emancipation and the defense of political liberty have always required the self-sacrifice of people with religious sentiments and a religious devotion to liberty. This is particularly the case when liberty is threatened by authoritarianism: the staunchest defenders of liberty are those who feel a deeply religious commitment to it. Viroli makes his case by reconstructing, for the first time, the history of the Italian "religion of liberty," covering its entire span but focusing on three key examples of political emancipation: the free republics of the late Middle Ages, the Risorgimento of the nineteenth century, and the antifascist Resistenza of the twentieth century. In each example, Viroli shows, a religious spirit that regarded moral and political liberty as the highest goods of human life was fundamental to establishing and preserving liberty.
He also shows that when this religious sentiment has been corrupted or suffocated, Italians have lost their liberty. This book makes a powerful and provocative contribution to today's debates about the compatibility of religion and republicanism.
Contents
Preface to the English Edition xi Introduction 1 Part I A Republican Christianity 1 Republics Protected by God 15 2 Images of the Civil Religion 21 3 Republican and Monarchical Religion 29 4 A Religion That Instills Virtue 33 5 Sacred Laws and Sacred Republics 37 6 Republican Religion and Religious Reform 45 7 A Religion to Live Free 52 8 Within the Soul 62 9 The Twilight of Republican Religion 72 Part II Religious Rebirth and National Emancipation 10 Without God 89 11 After the Revolution 103 12 The New Alliance 115 13 Literature and Hymns of the Religion of Liberty 126 14 Apostles and Martyrs 140 15 Masters 145 16 Regrets and the Quest for New Faiths 154 Part III They Got Too Close to the Light 17 Two Clashing Religions 175 18 In the Name of Christ 186 19 Inner Liberty 200 20 The Religion of Liberty 214 21 A Religion That Instills Hope 226 22 The Religion of Duty 235 23 As If God Existed 249 24 Only a God Can Expel a God 259 25 Leaving Life 268 26 Twilight 275 Notes 283 Index 329