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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Willert, Trine Stauning

Titel

From National Religion to Pure Religion: Historical and Conceptual Framework

Ist Teil von

• New Voices in Greek Orthodox Thought, 2014, p.21-37

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This contemporary historical background may serve as an explanatory framework for the emerging paradigm in Greek theology and the new meanings of religion in Greek public life that have been identified in this research. The complex relations between state and religion, and the consequences for identity processes in the contemporary era of globalisation: To the extent that globalisation refers to secularisation, national collective identity will doubtless come to depend less on religion; indeed, it may be argued that ethnic (or ethnonational) identity will be a substitute for waning religious belief. This chapter offers a brief introduction on the role of religion and Orthodox theology in the course of Modern Greek history. It provides a historical account of the specific relationship between the Orthodox Church and the Greek nation, between Orthodox religious identity and Greek national identity. Religion, which in the age of pre-modern empires was perceived as universal, became, in the age of nation states, nationally rooted.