The Irreligiousness of Fascism

This essay aims to reexamine the debate on the impact of Fascism on religious studies, by reconstructing what Raffaele Pettazzoni, one of the founding fathers of this field of research in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century, meant by “religion of the state.” His research on the origin o...

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Main Author: Severino, Valerio S. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Numen
Year: 2016, Volume: 63, Issue: 5/6, Pages: 525-547
Further subjects:B Raffaele Pettazzoni history of religious studies Fascism political religion
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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