Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity (Routledge Religion, Society and Government in Eastern Europe) - Softcover

Kitromilides, Paschalis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367586878 ISBN 13: 9780367586874

Verlag: Routledge, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This book explores how the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the leading centre of spiritual authority in the Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, coped with political developments from Ottoman times until the present. The book outlines how under the Ottomans, despite difficult circumstances, the Patriarchate managed to draw on its huge symbolic and moral power and organization to uphold the unity and catholicity of the Orthodox Church, how it struggled to do this during the subsequent age of nationalism when churches within new nation-states unilaterally claimed their autonomy reflecting local national demands, and how the church coped in the twentieth century with the rise of nationalist Turkey, the decline of Orthodoxy in Asia Minor and with the Cold War. The book concludes by assessing the current position and future prospects of the Patriarchate in the region and the world.

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367586878
• ISBN 13: 9780367586874
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Deutschland