Tracking the Political Scope of Ultraconservative Christian-Right Movements in Italy: Strategies, Mobilizations, and Narratives

The purpose of this chapter is to shed light on the strategies that ultra-conservative Christian-Right movements have been using in recent years. In the first section we focus on the new path of Italian ultraconservative Catholic activism and the emergence of the anti-gender issue and its politicization. In the second and third sections, we briefly highlight the main frame of the dis-courses mobilized by the actors in both the religious and political fields. We conclude by examining the political effect of the Christian Right in Italy, indicating the particular relation that this particular kind of religious-based move-ment seems to have with the Catholic Church in Italy and, of course, with the Vatican.