Religion and Power. The opportunity that becomes temptation

This volume collects the contributions relating to the eighth International Seminar organized in November 2017 by the "Julien Ries" Archive for Symbolic Anthropology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, dedicated to the theme Religion and Power. The opportunity that becomes temptation. Religion can be defined as a system of practices identifiable with narratives and celebrations, i.e., myths and rituals. As a system, it is necessarily prescriptive: its normativity should be at the service of man, favoring him in cultivating the dimension of his relationship with God. It has happened and happens, however, that the prescriptive aspect tends to take over, with the result of transforming religion, which is at the service of God and men, into an instrument that uses God to dominate men. 

Texts by: Michele Brignone, Stefano Caprio, Bernardo Cervellera, Giovanni Codevilla, Alberto Cozzi, Martino Diez, Chiara Giaccardi, Maria Chiara Giorda, Tiziana Lorenzetti, Silvano Petrosino, Aldo Natale Terrin, Sergio Ubbiali.