LeVine and Salvatore 8722.ntonio Gramsci, A Quaderni del carcere, 4 vols. (Rome and Trento: Istituto
Gramsci/Einaudi, 2001), 1400.
23.ee Tommaso La Rocca, “Introduzione,” in Antonio Gramsci, S La religione
come senso comune (Milano: EST, 1997), 41, 46.
24.ntonio Gramsci, A La religione come senso comune, edited and with an intro-
duction by Tommaso La Rocca (Milano: EST, 1997), 133. For both Gramsci
and his heir, the post-world war anthropologist Ernesto De Martino, “the
study of popular religion is a political act, or at least a prelude to that act.”
They called us to “understand popular religion because it is itself intrin-
sically political, though its politics are complex, fragmented and contra-
dictory.” George R. Saunders, “The Magic of the South: Popular Religion
and Elite Catholicism in Italian Ethnology,” in Italy’s “Southern Question”:
Orientalism in One Country, edited by Jane Schneider (New York: Berg,
1998), 188.
25.ate Crehan, K Gramsci, Culture and Anthropology (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002), 19.
26.ohn Fulton, “Religion and Politics in Gramsci: An Introduction,” J
Sociological Analysis 48, no. 3 (1987): 197–216. Interestingly, even in
Italian, most of the work on Gramsci and religion seems to have been done
in the 1970s and 1980s—at the very moment that liberation theologies were
gaining theoretical and political force (see La Rocca, “Introduzione”). The
rise of Catholic liberation theologies was something Gramsci might have
appreciated, without being able to anticipate it, as he felt that ultimately
socialism would replace religion as a “total philosophy of praxis.”
27.ntonio Gramsci, A Selections from the Prison Notebooks, edited and
translated by Quitnin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith (New York:
International Publishers, 1971), 420.
- La Rocca, “Introduzione,” 24.
- Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere, 247.
- Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere, 247–48.
- Gramsci, Quaderni del carcere, 621–23.
32.oberto Vinco, R Una fede senza futuro? Religione e mondo cattolico in
Gramsci (Verona: Mazziana, 1983), 10.
33.ramsci, quoted in Michael Watts, “Islamic Modernities? Citizenship, Civil G
Society, and Islamism in a Nigerian City,” in Cities and Citizenship, edited
by James Holston (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999), 67.