Nonviolence and Religion: Creating a Post-Secular Narrative with Aldo Capitini

Roberto Baldoli
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Roberto Baldoli: Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK

Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 7, issue 3, 1-11

Abstract: This article argues that nonviolence is a valid framework for religions to build up a post-secular narrative. Drawing from the approach of Aldo Capitini, I claim that religions can choose nonviolence as a religious path to integrate the different narratives of secularism via the concepts and practices of liberation and openness. In particular, nonviolence adds self-rule to an immanent framework; it offers resilience to the society; and it adds “the heroism of peace” to the political sphere. The result is the construction via facti of an innovative post-secular narrative.

Keywords: nonviolence; post-secular; religion; secularism; praxis; Catholicism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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