This article analyzes the transmission of Catholicism in families of Italian descent in Argentina. The study is based on a field research carried out in Buenos Aires in 2007 by interviewing three generations of the same family in different areas of the city as to their religious practices. Considering these data Elena Zapponi analyzes continuities, changes and paradoxical implications in today's Christian-Catholic practices. That specific methodological approach allows to observe some particular aspects of those generations' beliefs which recall the foreign origin of Italian Catholicism. The study points out the transformation of the contemporary religious imaginary in Buenos Aires: this change clearly appears in the plurality of symbolic ressources borrowed to construct identity. In this context, the inherited italianity participates in the symbolic construction of a "cultural homeland" where the cultural values work as a provider of meaning.

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