CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES IV, WEST EUROPE, VOLUME, 5

 

THE ESSENCE OF ITALIAN CULTURE AND THE CHALLENGE OF A GLOBAL AGE

 

edited by

Paulo Janni

George F. McLean

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

INTRODUCTION

George F. McLean

 

PART I. ItaLICITY AND THE EMERGENCE OF CULTURE IN OUR TIME

 

Chapter I.  Italicity: Global and Local

Piero Bassetti

 

Chapter II. Hermeneutics of Culture: Local and Global

George F . McLean

 

Chapter III. Globalization and Italian Culture

Robert Royal

 

PART II. ITALIANS IN AMERICA

 

Chapter IV. Italian Cultural Identity and Migration: Italian Communities Abroad and Italian Cultural Identity through Time

Maddalena Tirabassi

 

Chapter V. Identical Difference: Notes on Italian and Italian American Identities

Fred L. Gardaphe

 

Chapter VI. The Essence of Italian Culture and the Challenge of the Global Age: Italian Cultural Identity and Migration

Michael Barone

 

Chapter VII The Making of Identity in a Globalizing World: An Overview of the Italian American Business Community

Consuelo Corradi

 

PART III. AMERICA AND ITS ITALIANS

 

Chapter VIII. Italian Americans in a Pluralistic America

John Kromkowski

 

Chapter IX. The Religious Challenge of a Globalizing World for Italian Cultural Identity: Lessons from the American Experience in Public Education

Robert A. Destro

 

PART IV. ITALICITY IN A GLOBAL AGE

 

Chapter X. Locality, Nationality, Globality: The Possible Contribution of Italianness in the Age of Globalization

Mauro Magatti

 

Chapter XI. Civic Identity without National Identity? Political Identity in a New and Changing Global Context

Vittorio Emanuele Parsi

Chapter XII. Globalization, Religion and Culture: Beyond Conflict, beyond Sovereignty

Maryann Cusimano Love

 



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