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Orthodox Christianity in 21st century Greece : the role of religion in culture, ethnicity, and politics /

One of the predominantly Orthodox countries that has never experienced communism is Greece, a country uniquely situated to offer insights about contemporary trends and developments in Orthodox Christianity. This volume offers a comprehensive treatment of the role Orthodox Christianity plays at the d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Roudometof, Victor, 1964-, Makrides, Vasilios, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Foreword / by Grace Davie
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Tradition, transition and change in Greek orthodoxy at the dawn of the twenty-first century : introductory considerations / Vasilios N. Makrides and Victor Roudometof
  • Orthodox Christianity, Greek ethnicity & politics
  • The evolution of Greek orthodoxy in the context of world historical globalisation / Victor Roudometof
  • An intriguing true-false paradox : the entanglement of modernization and intolerance in the Orthodox Church of Greece / Anastassios Anastassiadis
  • Scandals, secret agents, and corruption : the Orthodox Church of Greece during the 2005 crisis : its relations to the state and modernization / Vasilios N. Makrides
  • Domesticating Islam and Muslim immigrants : political and church responses to constructing a central mosque in Athens / Dia Anagnostou and Ruby Gropas
  • Non-Orthodox minorities in contemporary Greece : legal status and concomitant debates between church, state, and the international community / Prodromos Yannas
  • Orthodox Christianity and Greek culture
  • The traditional modern : rethinking the position of contemporary Greek women to orthodoxy / Eleni Sotiriu
  • The mosque that was not there : ethnographic elaborations on Orthodox conceptions of sacrifice / Dimitris Antoniou
  • Religion and welfare in Greece : a new or renewed role for the church? / Effie Fokas
  • Faith and trust : tracking patterns of religious and civic commitment in Greece and Europe : an empirical approach / Theoni Stathopoulou
  • Sacred words in a secular beat : the free monks phenomenon at the intersection of religion, youth, and popular culture / Lina Molokotos-Liederman.