Law Review: The New American Civil Religion: Lesson for Italy

Andrew M.M. Koppelman, The New American Civil Religion: Lesson for Italy (January 29, 2010). George Washington International Law Review, Forthcoming; Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 10-05. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1544465

American civil religion has been changing, responding to increasing religious plurality by becoming more abstract. The problem of increasing plurality is not only an American one. It is also presented in Italy, where civic identity has been centered around a Catholicism that is no longer universal. Perhaps Italy has, in this respect, an American future.