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Today, nobody would consider George L. Mosse as a historian of Christianity. He is well known primarily for his works on the history of fascism, nationalism and racism. However, not only in the first phase of his career, as a scholar of early modern Europe, he was precisely a historian of Christianity, but his contribution to the understanding of Christian experiences and movements in the last centuries, albeit little known, has continued to be extremely relevant. So this article a reflection about Mosse's approach to religion, and especially to Christianity, analyses the main results of his researches on the subject and their development and proposes a final appraisal of his legacy in this field of research.

Between 1981 and 1983, the mobilization against Euromissiles introduced an extraordinary novelty in Italian social and political history. The Italian anti-nuclear movement took off later than in other European countries and its main feature was a politicization unknown elsewhere. The movement developed on the basis of a double and contrary youth mobilization: the first coming from the Communists and the second from the New Left. The movement was not only manifold, but also radically divided about its goals (balanced disarmament vs. unilateralism, atomic weapons vs. nuclear energy, nuclear issue vs. military budget) and methods of protests (pleas vs. conscientious objections, mass demonstrations vs. civil disobedience, referendums vs. tax objections). Continuous disagreements conditioned and weakened the anti-nuclear movement, even when the axis of the protest was transferred to Comiso, to which and from which the PCI and the Radical Party promoted different and contrary marches. Even when, in 1983, a unanimous framework was approved, a common mobilization remained difficult, both in Comiso and in Rome. The movement was only a vast, heterogeneous and divergent coalition, but it expressed a common political base and culture. Neither Communist nor pacifist, but influenced by the New Left protest against traditional political parties, the new culture was rooted in environmentalism, pessimism, nuclear catastrophism, anti-Americanism, new socialism, disarmed unilateralism, and an opposition to everything that resembled traditional politics. The movement worried the Italian government, but it never represented a real political danger and never even succeeded in bringing the nuclear issue to the foreground. Nonetheless, it deeply changed the Italian political culture: it brought new styles and sensibilities, unknown to the traditional left. For the first time, criticisms of ideologies and parties, direct action, civil disobedience and individualism split Christian Democratics from their Catholic grassroots and Communists from the youth.

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Se ha cumplido el centenario del nacimiento de Giuseppe Dossetti (1913–1996), político, vicesecretario (1945–1951) de la Democracia Cristiana italiana, líder de su ala izquierda en el ayuntamiento de Bolonia hasta 1958, fue más tarde sacerdote y fundador de una comunidad monástica. El texto examina su experiencia individual, poniéndola en contraste con los itinerarios personales de una generación católica entre fascismo y democracia. Tras una breve aproximación al problema histórico de la nueva clase política católica, analiza las características de la formación de esta generación y la forma en que aquellos jóvenes católicos pasaron a la política

Se ha cumplido el centenario del nacimiento de Giuseppe Dossetti (1913–1996), político, vicesecretario (1945–1951) de la Democracia Cristiana italiana, líder de su ala izquierda en el ayuntamiento de Bolonia hasta 1958, fue más tarde sacerdote y fundador de una comunidad monástica. El texto examina su experiencia individual, poniéndola en contraste con los itinerarios personales de una generación católica entre fascismo y democracia. Tras una breve aproximación al problema histórico de la nueva clase política católica, analiza las características de la formación de esta generación y la forma en que aquellos jóvenes católicos pasaron a la política

AbstractThis article focuses on the early years of the cold war in Italy in the form of an analysis of the Catholic press from 1947 to the eve of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. In so doing it attempts to answer key questions for Italian Catholicism relating to peace building that arose from total war in the age of mass democracy.