Unit HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE

Course
Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
Study-unit Code
10999209
Curriculum
Lingue e studi sulla traduzione
Teacher
Mario Tosti
Teachers
  • Mario Tosti
Hours
  • 36 ore - Mario Tosti
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline linguistico-letterarie, artistiche, storiche, demoetnoantropologiche e filosofiche
Academic discipline
M-STO/02
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
The course aims to highlight the political aspects that the government of the Church has expressly linked to the promotion of some of the most widespread pious practices of the modern and contemporary age. The reconstruction of the process, positively based on documents, not only intends to bring to light events that are often misunderstood, it also wants to contribute to a discernment, more aware because it is aware of the resonances deriving from a past rich in political-social implications, on the revival of popular piety and on the political use of religious symbols in today's public debate
Reference texts
D.MENOZZI, Il potere delle devozioni. Pietà popolare e uso politico dei culti in età contemporanea, Carocci editore, Roma 2022.
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Educational objectives
The course, retracing the intense politicization that characterized the story of devotions dear to the faithful (Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Immaculate Heart of Mary), evokes the possible populist exploitation of a recovery detached from history.
Prerequisites
- Reorganize data and concepts
- Knowing how to read, obtain information and compare historical documents
-Know the main conceptual and terminological tools of the discipline
- Understand changes and permanences of historical processes
- Knowing how to evaluate the difference between historical consciousness and the cultural stereotype of an event or period
-Get to know European history in depth from the discovery of America at the end of the nineteenth century.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with PPT projection and use of historical maps
Other information
Students with disabilities and / or SLD: for any information on the University's services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department contact person.
Learning verification modality
Oral examination.
Students with disabilities and / or with SLD: for the modality of carrying out the verification tests, students can take advantage of inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator.
Extended program
Today's populism makes recourse, on a global level, to the political use of traditional devotions. Its most prominent exponents - from Bolsonaro to Orbán, from Le Pen to Salvini - link the ostentation of religious symbols deposited for centuries in Christian memory to the success of a national-identity response to the crisis of globalization. In a world perceived as suspended between secularization and religious fundamentalism, the Church too is relaunching popular piety. It is indeed a central point in Pope Francis' program. Bergoglio, who does not hesitate to denounce the populist tendencies, however, expels from his speech any consideration of the role attributed in the past by the Church to forms of worship. The course, retracing the intense politicization that characterized the story of devotions dear to the faithful (Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph, Sacred Heart, St. Francis, Immaculate Heart of Mary), evokes the possible populist exploitation of a recovery detached from history.
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