Civil wars – open or hidden, Middle-Eastern or African – and their serious repercussions on our zone of the globe suggested to search where few are looking, with the aim of opening the way for a possible improvement of the situation. With scientific rigor, no illusion whatsoever, and starting from some texts of Averincev, Hirschman and Geertz, the author inquired into some characteristics of Christian and Muslim religion, and religiosity. His calm reasoning aims at fighting, above all, intransigence – starting from what ended into the many kinds of terrorism. His ambition is to contribute to shaping an environment more favorable to well-being, peace, democracy, liberty and social justice in the Mediterranean and in Europe. In this context, carrying on a dialogue with Piero Bassetti on Italicity, he discusses numerous new functions that our “community of sentiments” is – or could be in the future - called to perform.