Abstract
This reading of the "Prison Notebooks" begins with the hypothe sis that the Gramscian theory of religion is harmonized around two distinct perspectives. Gramsci envisages, on the one hand, religion as one of the ideological superstructures of a given social formation. On the other hand, he considers it as imbricated in the socio-economic structure upon which rests, finally, the entire superstructural edifice of the society. It is under this double aspect that this article analyses social practice and religion in general, and the Catholic Church, of which he studies the ecclesiastical system and the magnificence of the mass, most particularly.