reference to the geographical location where he or she lives. Territorial Christianity produces typical statements like: “Italians are Catholics,” or “This is a Protestant nation.” In a way, the term “church” is a different (spiritual) look at the same ethno-political reality, through the lens of (infant) baptism. This concept is fundamentally different from that of the voluntary association (the “gathered church”) that characterized early modern conceptions of church. Since the religious and the political