This collection brings together fifteen studies on the survival and adaptation of the Orthodox religious and cultural tradition in the societies of Southeastern Europe after the fall of Constantinople, a world so often misunderstood and misinterpreted. This problem of cultural history is examined in a diversity of contexts and on multiple levels of analysis in order to elucidate issues of broader concern to social theory such as the fluidity and dynamic character of identity, the intricate encounter of religion and politics and the challenge of secular world views such as the Enlightenment...
This collection brings together fifteen studies on the survival and adaptation of the Orthodox religious and cultural tradition in the societies of So...
This is an exploration of the political ideas and pre-Greek revolutionary social and cultural reforms instigated by the Greek englightenment figure, Adamantios Korais.
This is an exploration of the political ideas and pre-Greek revolutionary social and cultural reforms instigated by the Greek englightenment figure, A...
The place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the interplay of religion and knowledge in Western countries, often ignoring the East. In Enlightenment and religion in the Orthodox World leading historians address this imbalance by exploring the intellectual and cultural challenges and changes that took place in Orthodox communities during the eighteenth century. The two main centres of Orthodoxy, the Greek-speaking world and the Russian Empire, are the focus of early chapters, with specialists analysing the...
The place of religion in the Enlightenment has been keenly debated for many years. Research has tended, however, to examine the interplay of religion ...
