BOOKS BY ENZO PACE

Through a short case-study, the essay shows, in the first place, how identity politics reveals and why religions are a fundamental element in its definition; and, in the second place, which are the cultural and religious resistance lines to globalization. The aim is to demonstrate that clashes of civilization and religious wars do not exist.What happens is rather the collective movements emerge which do their best to feel and imagine themselves «different », in a world and in a society where, in modernity’s name, such differences appear more and more vanishing. Difference though is a resource wich can be mobilized to create political consent.