Monoteismi in mare aperto. Il Mediterraneo tra confini identitari e orizzonti chiusi

Abstract

The essay aims to explore, in a kind of geophilosophical journey, the different cultural stratifications of the Mediterranean, including the three religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, capable of drawing an evocative symbolic code. Whatever the origin of the religions, after the settlement of a rich polytheism, Judaism came to impose itself in the Middle Eastern strip, six thousand years before the birth of Christ, proposing a strict monotheism and an articulate worldview. In its footsteps followed Christianity and then in 600 A.D. Islamism, historical religions set on the shores of the Mediterranean, mute and mobile spectator of the three different revelations of a God who is complicit with the world and its troubled histories. Almost evoking, in the symbolic interweaving of sea waves and historical experiences, the need to overcome rigid and closed identities in order to gain that openness of gaze, which only the sea can evoke.