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Regarding Italian citizens in Italy, according to the 2005 Eurobarometer poll (conducted on behalf of the European Commission), 74% of Italians "believe[d] there is a God", 16% "believe[d] there is some sort of spirit or life force" and 6% "[did] not believe there is any sort of spirit, God, or life force". [10]
Other Gods and Goddesses of Italian Mythology include: Aradia is a folk Goddess of witchcraft. Carmenta is the Goddess of spells, known for chanting incantations in verse to ease the pains of women in labor and children facing illness. Februus is the Italian God of purification who lives in the underworld.
Italian idealism, born from interest in the German movement and particularly in Hegelian doctrine, developed in Italy starting from the spiritualism of the nineteenth-century Risorgimento tradition, and culminated in the first half of the twentieth century in its two greatest exponents: Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 November 2024. Catholic Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi. Saint Francis is one of the patron saints of Italy. Christianity in Italy has been historically characterised by the dominance of the Catholic Church since the East–West Schism. However, the country is also home to significant Christian ...
A popular belief is that her name derives from the Feast of Epiphany (Italian: Festa dell'Epifania). [2] [3] Many people believe that the name Befana is derived from the Italian version of the Greek word epifania or epiphaneia (Greek, επιφάνεια = appearance, surface; English: epiphany) and this is the most popular theory.
Tradition for Evola was not Christian—he did not believe in God—but rather an eternal supernatural knowledge with values of authority, hierarchy, order, discipline and obedience. [8] [9] Evola advocated for Fascist Italy's racial laws, [10] and eventually became Italy's leading "racial philosopher". [11]
The 20th-century Italian Communist Antonio Gramsci drew great inspiration from Machiavelli's writings on ethics, morals, and how they relate to the State and revolution in his writings on Passive Revolution, and how a society can be manipulated by controlling popular notions of morality. [126] Joseph Stalin read The Prince and annotated his own ...
Freedom of religion in Italy is guaranteed under the 1947 constitution of the Italian Republic.Before that religious toleration was provided for by the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy which in turn derived from the Albertine Statute granted by Carlo Alberto of the Kingdom of Sardinia to his subjects in 1848, the Year of Revolutions.