Fede e ordalia. Religiosità e cyber community a Catania.

Abstract

The monograph presents n anthropological analysis of the religious feast os Saint Agata in Sicily (Italy), which is one of the most important in the Mediterranean area, gathering a very big number of faithful people, especially young, who live this commemorative moment like an unloose appointment with the patron saint of Catania, town of the Sicilian region in southern Italy. According to us, it represents not only a religious feast, consecrating the annual encounter between the Saint and her local community, but a kind of modern youth initiation rite.