Summary

1. Foreword - 2. The starting point. A dutiful but changing relationship - 3. The dynamic character of constitutional legality and its forms. Application, implementation, actualization - 4. The constitutional relevance of the religious factor between innovations to be supported and continuity to be safeguarded - 5. The collective dimension of religious freedom and the public role of religions - 6. Interpretive responses - 7. Problematic profiles. From freedom-autonomy to subsidiarity-collaboration - 8. Minimal normative clues. The legitimate need to preserve religious-confessional identity and the (equally legitimate) attempts to redefine and contain special disciplinary regimes. The Third Sector Code - 9. The point of arrival (or rather restart). A new, problematic network of relations between the secular order and the religious order and the limits to rethinking dedicated principles.

ABSTRACT

It is necessary to seek new spaces for the recognition of the social and public value of the religious factor, not limited to a particular material sphere but in response to a general need. In particular, the economic-social actions of ecclesiastical-religious entities will be examined: if in fact, on the one hand, the opportunities presented to these entities constitute an important indication of a progressive distancing of the respective legal regime from the traditional paradigm of disciplinary specialization, with a contextual attraction to the area of common law, it should also be noted how this phenomenon is accompanied, on the other hand, by a certain approximation of religious rights themselves to the principles and regulatory models suggested by secular law.