Orthodox Christianity in 21st century Greece
Subtitle: the role of religion in culture, ethnicity, and politics
By: [edited by] Victor Roudometof and Vasilios N. Makrides.
Contributors: Roudometof, Victor, 1964-; Makrides, Vasilios, 1961-
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754666967
Subjects: Orthodoxos Ekklēsia tēs Hellados -- History -- 21st century; Orthodox Eastern Church -- Greece -- History -- 21st century
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Grace Davie; title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Tradition, transition and change in Greek orthodoxy at the dawn of the twenty-first century : introductory considerations / Vasilios N. Makrides and Victor Roudometof; title: Orthodox Christianity, Greek ethnicity & politics; title: The evolution of Greek orthodoxy in the context of world historical globalisation / Victor Roudometof; title: An intriguing true-false paradox : the entanglement of modernization and intolerance in the Orthodox Church of Greece / Anastassios Anastassiadis; title: Scandals, secret agents, and corruption : the Orthodox Church of Greece during the 2005 crisis : its relations to the state and modernization / Vasilios N. Makrides; title: Domesticating Islam and Muslim immigrants : political and church responses to constructing a central mosque in Athens / Dia Anagnostou and Ruby Gropas; title: Non-Orthodox minorities in contemporary Greece : legal status and concomitant debates between church, state, and the international community / Prodromos Yannas; title: Orthodox Christianity and Greek culture; title: The traditional modern : rethinking the position of contemporary Greek women to orthodoxy / Eleni Sotiriu; title: The mosque that was not there : ethnographic elaborations on Orthodox conceptions of sacrifice / Dimitris Antoniou; title: Religion and welfare in Greece : a new or renewed role for the church? / Effie Fokas; title: Faith and trust : tracking patterns of religious and civic commitment in Greece and Europe : an empirical approach / Theoni Stathopoulou; title: Sacred words in a secular beat : the free monks phenomenon at the intersection of religion, youth, and popular culture / Lina Molokotos-Liederman.