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In this expanded and thoroughly updated English edition of the Italianedition (2008), Massimo Faggioli offers us a history and broader contextof the so-called ecclesial movements of which Focolare, Community ofSant’Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way, Legionaries of Christ, Communion andLiberation, and Opus Dei are only some of the most recognizable names.Their history goes back to the period following the First Vatican Council,crosses Vatican II, and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a historythat prepares the movements’ rise in the last three decades, from JohnPaul II to Francis. These movements are a complex phenomenon that shapesthe Church now more than before, and they play a key role for the future ofCatholicism as a global community, in transition from a Eurocentric traditionto a world Church.