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
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
Chapter III. Globalization and Italian Culture
Chapter IV. Italian Cultural Identity and Migration: Italian Communities Abroad and Italian Cultural Identity through Time
Chapter V. Identical Difference: Notes on Italian and Italian American Identities
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
Chapter VIII. Italian Americans in a Pluralistic America
Chapter IX. The Religious Challenge of a Globalizing World for Italian Cultural Identity: Lessons from the American Experience in Public Education
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