Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780367586874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str.

Paschalis Kitromilides

Opis

This book explores how the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the leading centre of authority in the Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, coped with political developments from Ottoman times until the present. The book concludes by assessing the position of the Patriarchate towards the current political situation in the region.

Spis treści

Foreword by the Metropolitan of Pergamum Ioannis Zizioulas

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. The Orthodox Church and the Enlightenment. Testimonies from the correspondence of Ignatius of Ungrowallachia with G. P. Vieusseux

II. The Orthodox Church in modern state formation in Southeastern Europe

III. The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the challenge of nationalism in the 19th century

IV. The end of empire, Greece’s Asia Minor catastrophe and the Ecumenical Patriarchate

V. The Ecumenical Patriarchate during the Cold War (1946-1991)

VI. A religious International in Southeastern Europe?

VII. Orthodoxy, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

Ecumenical Patriarchs, 1800 –

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Paschalis M. Kitromilides is Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens, Greece