On the spirit of roots tourism.A round table was held last June 28th in Naples in the "catasti room" of the State Archives, in collaboration with the University Observatory on Tourism of the Federico II University; the Center for Research and Studies on Tourism (CReST) of the University of Calabria.The event intended to be a place of discussion for academics, experts and professionals, in order to explore the profound meaning and cultural, economic and spiritual implications of this particular mode of tourism in view of the International Conference on Roots Tourism, scheduled from 12 to 15 December 2024 at the University of Calabria, city of Rende, province of Cosenza. Italy.During the round table, the special issue dedicated to the topic by the scientific magazine "Fuori Luogo" was examined; the proceedings of the seminar "Special journeys of contemporary society", held in Rome in September, were also examined in depth. 2023.Numerous and prestigious speakers attended:• Doctor Candida Carrino, Director of the State Archives of Naples• Professor Fabio Corbisiero, Coordinator of the University Observatory on Tourism• Professor Gaetano Di Palma, teacher of Biblical Sciences• Professor Pasquale Giustiniani, professor of Theoretical Philosophy• Professor Antonella Perri, Scientific Coordinator at the Tourism Research and Studies Center• Professor Giuseppe Reale, Director of the Monumental Complex of Santa Maria la Nova - Naples• Professor Tullio Romita, Scientific Director of the Tourism Research and Studies Center• Professor Giovanni Tocci, Governance Area Representative at the Tourism Research and Studies CenterFollowing is the text of the short report on the topic that I had the honor of illustrating:State Archives, Naples, 28 June 2024Between faith and tradition. The role of religion in the actions and perceptions of emigrants from the Italian community of origin.(Pasquale Giustiniani)- IntroductionAmong the processes used by travelers and migrants to create a "home" outside their territories of origin, there is also the glue of religion, in Italy mainly in its Christian form, especially devotional rather than cultic. This glue almost acts as a suture thread which, at the same time, allows us to imagine and "remember" the past and re-attach the limbs and limbs of a collective body, which has often experienced social violence, or has been forced to leave their original places for economic and political reasons.In order to rebuild their personal and family identity, young and former young people return, often willingly, where rites and rituals are still important, which underline their original belonging to a true sacred order, defined by faiths , religions and, as far as the south is concerned, by religious folklore and popular devotions, more or less contiguous to the standard set by historical religions. In particular, popular devotion, managed and coordinated by the particular Churches, appears on the one hand as the suture to an adequate and institutional expression of lived faith; on the other hand, it preserves ancestral folkloric characters which, at times, are more the expression of an atavistic popular memory than the fruit of regimentation in the institutional forms of institutional faith - In which religious context does the return to the roots take place?Comparing the sad political situation of the city of Mytilene under the tyranny of Myrsilus, Alcaeus found no better metaphor than that of a ship tossed by the waves, subjected to the struggle between the winds, with the mast in tatters and the sail completely torn. This metaphor has become a real topos of literature, political examination and even religious meditation in the period of the post-covid 19 pandemic crisis. When, during the first act of "The Tempest" (1611-1612) by William Shakespeare, the Boatswain, during a story "in retrospect", shouts: «Lock up, lock out! Lower the sails – let's go offshore! Lock out!», the sailors - now in the vortex of a storm which, although "enchanted", is still making its terrible damage felt -, cannot help but highlight their extreme vulnerability and the outcome of the prayer: «We are lost ! Let's pray, let's pray! We are lost! Everyone!" . And so prayer arises almost spontaneously on the lips of many in those dark moments, to the point that they seem to be able to anaesthetise, together with the memory and historical roots of the literary characters captured by Shakespeare's spell, even the same latent trust, highlighted precisely by prayer, in the presence of a divine in human affairs, capable, that is, of being able to curb and reduce the evil effects of death and suffering in a plagued humanity.Almost forced, in the midst of the tragedy of a storm or the inevitability of a shipwreck, to choose only between possible alternatives, without true freedom of choice from scratch, not only the subject - a modern discovery! -, but even the god - the divine of modernity seems to have ...
