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
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780754666967
Other titles: Orthodox Christianity in twenty-first century Greece
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Grace Davie; title: Introduction : Tradition, transition and change in Greek orthodoxy at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Vasilios N. Makrides and Victor Roudometof; title: Part I : Orthodox Christianity, Greek ethnicity and politics; title: The evolution of Greek orthodoxy in the context of world historical globalization / 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: Part 2 : 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.