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

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  • Roberto Baldoli

    (Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK)

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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.

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  • Roberto Baldoli, 2018. "Nonviolence and Religion: Creating a Post-Secular Narrative with Aldo Capitini," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-11, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:50-:d:137204
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    1. Mantena, Karuna, 2012. "Another Realism: The Politics of Gandhian Nonviolence," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 106(2), pages 455-470, May.
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