Colonizing Christianity
Subtitle: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: Mar 05, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780823284429
Description: "Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church."--
Notes: Source title: Colonizing Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade (Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought)