Vol. 16 No. 20 (2025): The Churches and the City

Edited by Luigi Bartolomei (University of Bologna), Gianluca Buoncore (Univerisità degli Studi di
Firenze), Federica Fuligni (Indipendent researcher), Danilo Manzo (Centro Studi "C. Ghirardacci")

The Volume aims to analyze the relationship between churches and the city in the reconstruction
plans, in the phases of urbanization, in the cultural debate on the role of religious buildings
and their image after the Second Vatican Council, and in the precursor movements in different
European contexts.
Within a reflection on the future of this relationship, in the context of radical changes in the social
structure, in the acceleration between secularization and post-secularization, in the final distinction
between civil community and religious community, the authors draw a path for possible form, role
and model for churches of today and tomorrow.