This volume is the English translation of Il senso religioso (Rizzoli, 1997), including the Preface by James Francis Stafford (Introduction, pp. XI-XIV; Rizzoli, 1997, pp. V-IX) and the author’s Introduction to the Italian edition (“Preface”, p. XV; Rizzoli, 1997, p. XI).

The text opens with a Foreword (pp. IX-X) written for the present edition by Jean Bethke Elshtain, professor at the University of Chicago (Laura Spelman Rockefeller Chair of Social and Political Ethics).