Nonviolence and Religion: Creating a Post-Secular Narrative with Aldo Capitini

Abstract

This article argues that nonviolence is a valid framework for religions to build up a post-secular narrative. Drawing from the approach of Aldo Capitini, I claim that religions can choose nonviolence as a religious path to integrate the different narratives of secularism via the concepts and practices of liberation and openness. In particular, nonviolence adds self-rule to an immanent framework; it offers resilience to the society; and it adds “the heroism of peace” to the political sphere. The result is the construction via facti of an innovative post-secular narrative.

Keywords

• nonviolence
• post-secular
• religion
• secularism
• praxis
• Catholicism