Being and Belonging: A Comparative Examination of the Greek and Cypriot Orthodox Churches' Attitudes to in Early 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9783631760307 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2018 / 382 str.

Georgios Trantas

Opis

This book examines the conduct and rhetoric of the Orthodox Churches of Greece and Cyprus regarding 'Europeanisation' and its guiding principles and values, which, from a socio-cultural political perspective, necessitate the adaptation of previous national attitudes to post-Westphalian, post-national conditions.

Spis treści

Church Cultural Diplomacy - The Europeanness «Problématique» - State Personification - Articulation of «Being» and Political Culture - Post-Westphalian Readjustment - Debt-Crisis Initial Reactions - Identity Ark - Ethnarchy; Heterodefinition - Geocultural Politics

O autorze

Georgios Trantas specialises in Religion, Politics and Cultural Diplomacy in Southeastern Europe. He has earned his Ph.D at the University of Erfurt where he has also been a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral Fellow. His academic interests also include migration and the formation of religioscapes.