PRISONERS OF AN IMAGE. SECULARIZATION AS AN EPIDEMIC

What will stay with us after the CoViD-19 pandemic is over is not only the bewilderment at a huge life change or the collective anxiety for an insidious threat impending over mankind. Besides this, there are some images that have disturbed the consciences of those who care about the future of religious belief. In this article, Paolo Costa explains why we should be wary of these images and of the view of the relationship between religion and modernity that they tacitly embody.