9 The right to religious freedom of a nation-state: the ‘Catholic invariant’ in a changing society

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introductory note 1
4. 1 The right to religious freedom in the liberal era: from tolerance to freedom 3
5. 2 The Conciliazione: fascism and its ecclesiastical policy 18
6. 3 The right to religious freedom in the republican Constitution 33
7. 4 The right to religious freedom: from text to action 44
8. 5 The Villa Madama Accords of 1984: a new right to religious freedom for the Catholic Church 55
9. 6 Beyond the Catholic Church: the era of pluralism and agreements 66
10. 7 The Italian model faces change: policy shortcomings 88
11. 8 Constitutional judges and the pyramid of religions: the difficulty of procedure without politics 140
12. 9 The right to religious freedom of a nation-state: the ‘Catholic invariant’ in a changing society 152
13. Epilogue The Italian right to religious freedom, specificity, and secularisation in the Euro-Mediterranean area 182
14. Bibliography 187
15. Index 194