Darwin e l'altro cristianesimo. Il dibattito sull’evoluzione e la stampa protestante italiana nel lungo Ottocento (2022)
GianMarco Schiesaro (Author)
Accademia University Press
Physical Details: 480 pp.
Language: Italian
Sono ormai numerosi gli studi sulla ricezione dell’opera di Darwin da parte del mondo culturale dell’Ottocento, in particolare la sua influenza sul pensiero religioso. Da qualche tempo anche l’Italia è divenuta oggetto d’interesse: il darwinismo, il primo grande confronto scientifico-culturale seguito all’unificazione, colse il neonato Stato italiano nel pieno dell’impegno a costruire al suo interno una coesione sociale, in cui la cultura scientifica giocasse un ruolo centrale e surrogasse il collante di quella cattolica. È ancora gravemente miope, purtroppo, lo sguardo degli storici verso l’“altro cristianesimo” che in quegli anni si stava affermando in Italia: si tratta di quel complesso di movimenti di riforma evangelica che agitavano il nostro Paese e che, in simbiosi con il processo risorgimentale, aspiravano a superare lo Stato confessionale cattolico e a plasmare, attraverso l’educazione e il rinnovamento morale, le masse popolari e i nuovi cittadini italiani. Il volume si propone di superare questo deficit storiografico, indagando la pubblicistica evangelica del periodo e narrando, per la prima volta, il difficile confronto del protestantesimo italiano con la scienza dell’evoluzione: contrariamente all’opinione comune, in Italia si sviluppò un articolato dibattito filosofico e teologico, che attinse a informazioni scientifiche di prima mano e produsse una pluralità di opzioni, rivelandoci un affascinante, e ancora inedito, spaccato di storia del pensiero in Italia. [Abstract translated by DeepL.com/Translator: This is the abstract in English… There are now numerous studies on the reception of Darwin's work by the cultural world of the 19th century, particularly its influence on religious thought. For some time now, Italy has also become an object of interest: Darwinism, the first great scientific-cultural confrontation following unification, caught the newly formed Italian state in the midst of its efforts to build a social cohesion within itself, in which scientific culture played a central role and superseded the glue of Catholic culture. Unfortunately, historians still need to focus on the "other Christianity" that was emerging in Italy in those years - a complex of evangelical reform movements that agitated the country and which, in symbiosis with the Risorgimento process, aspired to overcome the Catholic confessional state and to shape, through education and moral renewal, the popular masses and the new Italian citizens. This volume aims to overcome this historiographical deficit, investigating the evangelical publicity of the period and narrating, for the first time, the difficult confrontation of Italian Protestantism with the science of evolution: contrary to common opinion, an articulate philosophical and theological debate developed in Italy, drawing on first-hand scientific information and producing a plurality of options, revealing to us a fascinating, and as yet unpublished, cross-section of the history of thought in Italy.]
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