Religion has had been foundational in shaping Italy. Home to the Vatican State, the Italian peninsula is the religious centre for one billion Catholics globally

"This is the first book-length study to address the question of religion in contemporary Italian cinema and television. It questions why religion persists on It

This volume of the Religion and the Social Order series examines the phenomenon of the globalization of religions that has particularly characterized the last f

Religion has had been foundational in shaping Italy. Home to the Vatican State, the Italian peninsula is the religious centre for one billion Catholics globally

Increasingly, the modern neo-liberal world marginalises any notion of religion or spirituality, leaving little or no room for the sacred in the public sphere. W