Emilio Gentile (born 1946) is an Italianhistorian andprofessor, specializing in thehistory,ideology, and culture ofItalian fascism. Born inBojano, Gentile is considered one of Italy's foremostcultural historians ofFascist Italy and its ideology.^[1] He studied under the renowned Italian historianRenzo De Felice and wrote a book about him.^[2]

Gentile serves as Professor of History at theSapienza University of Rome. He considers fascism a form ofpolitical religion. He also applied the theory of political religion to theUnited States in the essayPolitics as Religion (2006) regarding the sacralization of politics in theaftermath of the September 11 attacks.^[3] In 2003, Gentile was awarded theHans Sigrist Prize.^[4]

• Storia del partito fascista. 1919-1922. Movimento e milizia. 1989
• Il culto del littorio. La sacralizzazione della politica nell'Italia fascista. Rome/Bari. 1993
  • English translation: The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy, 1996,Harvard University Press,hup.harvard.edu
• Le religioni della politica. Fra democrazie e totalitarismi. Laterza, Rome 2001
  • English translation:Politics as Religion.Princeton University Press. 2006.
• Fascismo. Storia e interpretazione. Rome/Bari. 2002
• Il mito dello Stato nuovo. Dal radicalismo nazionale al fascismo. 2002
• Le origini dell'Italia contemporanea. L'età giolittiana. 2003
• Renzo De Felice. Lo storico e il personaggio. 2003
• Il fascismo in tre capitoli. 2006
• La Grande Italia. Il mito della nazione nel XX secolo. 2006
  • English translation:La Grande Italia: The Myth of the Nation in the Twentieth Century.University of Wisconsin Press. 2009.
• La democrazia di Dio. La religione americana nell'era dell'impero e del terrore, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2006.ISBN 88-420-8051-9.
  • English translation:God's Democracy: American Religion After September 11.Greenwood Press. 2008.
• Il fascino del persecutore.George Mosse e i totalitarismi. Carocci. 2007
• L'apocalisse della modernità. La grande guerra per l'uomo nuovo. Mondadori. 2008
• Contro Cesare. Cristianesimo e totalitarismo nell'epoca dei fascismi, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2010.ISBN 978-88-07-11107-5.
• Né stato né nazione. Italiani senza meta, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2010.ISBN 978-88-420-9321-3.
• Italiani senza padri. Intervista sulRisorgimento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2011.ISBN 978-88-420-9499-9.
• E fu subito regime. Il fascismo e la marcia su Roma, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2012.ISBN 978-88-420-9577-4.

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