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Most Italians were not really religious at all when their religiosity was measured by the strict requirements of most Protestant denominations. In the following chapters 30 Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento we shall see how the British came to this conclusion. But was it really that simple? A superstitious form of religiosity would possibly be enough to justify the Italians’ attachment to all those ‘deep images’ that derived from Christianity and that, according to Banti, were the cultural substrata of the nation.

This consciousness and confidence of their ‘superiority’ over all nineteenth-century peoples, led the British to view Italians through an ‘Orientalist’ lens, as I argue in the concluding parts of this chapter. The evangelical missionaries studied throughout the book were agents of ‘cultural imperialism’, for they worked in Italy with the conviction that they were exporting a superior religion and civilisation: that combination of Protestantism, liberalism, and Free Trade that had made Britain the dominant world power.

The reader may ask at this point why I do not consider the question of whether religion actually influenced British foreign relations at all, before entering into the discussion on how it influenced them; and also why I prefer to speak of ‘foreign relations’ and not ‘foreign policy’. The reasons for the former lie in my conviction, as already discussed and backed by important scholarship,197 that nineteenth-century Britain was a pervasively religious country, one where religion affected and directed all aspects of life.

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