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 dawn of the twenty-first century Greece from social scientific and cultural-historical perspectives. This book breaks new ground by examining in depth the multifaceted changes that took place in the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and politics, ethnicity, gender, and popular culture. Its...
One of the predominantly Orthodox countries that has never experienced communism is Greece, a country uniquely situated to offer insights about contem...
This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into social-scientific vocabulary, to date, there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept. Historically theorists have intertwined the concepts of the global and the glocal or have subsumed the glocal under other concepts such as cosmopolitanization. Moreover, theorists have failed to give local due attention in their theorizing. The book argues that the terms global, the local and the glocal are in need of unambiguous and...
This book seeks to provide a critical introduction to the under-theorized concept of Glocalization. While the term has been slowly diffused into so...
