La religiosità carismatica cattolica. Uno studio comparativo tra la situazione argentina e quella itahana.

The paper focuses on how, in the post-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church, new religious movements, emotional revivals, and a new role for laity slowly emerged. The methodological scenario includes different theories about the relationship between religion and modernity, and about how the former interacts with the latter, inter alia through secularisation, rationalization, individualisation, and privatisation of individual religion. A case study of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal is of special interest. The movement had a spectacular growth internationally during the last forty years. It derived from Protestant Pentecostalism a religion (and a religiousness) which is highly emotional, and for this very reason quite original, even within the very diverse scene of contemporary intra-Catholic pluralism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]