Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy
Title | Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy PDF eBook |
Author | Paschalis M. Kitromilides |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2024-10-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1040248500 |
The first section of this volume aims to examine various aspects of the impact of Enlightenment thought in the Balkans in the 18th and 19th centuries. Particular topics include the idea of modernization, with respect to the role of science or the position of women, and the growth of new forms of political consciousness, but Professor Kitromilides is throughout concerned with the conflict between these incoming political, cultural and religious ideas and the traditions of Orthodoxy which had dominated the region under the Ottomans. Of the articles, a number focus specifically on the Greek world, both before and after the creation of an independent Greek world, and extend the coverage to include Greek communities beyond Europe. Similarly, the second part of the volume, on dilemmas of nationalism, looks also at Greek irredentism in Asia Minor and Cyprus. The final item combines bibliographical additions with the author’s further reflections on the subjects covered here and their historiography.
Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy
Title | Enlightenment, Nationalism, Orthodoxy PDF eBook |
Author | Paschalis Kitromilides |
Publisher | Variorum Publishing |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780860784432 |
This volume contains 13 studies on the impact of the Enlightenment on the political thought and culture of the Balkans in the 18th-19th centuries, and on the development of the concept of nationality, in particular amongst the Greek-speaking peoples.
An Orthodox Commonwealth
Title | An Orthodox Commonwealth PDF eBook |
Author | Paschalis M. Kitromilides |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 169 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1000327388 |
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 and nationalism to traditional religious outlooks. The author argues consistently against all forms of reductionism, converses at length with the sources in order to pose questions to conventional views and invites the historical imagination to recover and understand a world submerged by the nationalist interpretation of the past. This task involves the recovery of the geographical pluralism that made Orthodox culture a truly transnational phenomenon. The collection accordingly brings into focus both the epicentres of Orthodox culture and symbolism such as Mt Athos and Constantinople, but also its hinterlands in Asia Minor and the Balkans.
Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World
Title | Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World PDF eBook |
Author | Paschalis Kitromilides |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2018-10-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351185411 |
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.
Late Enlightenment
Title | Late Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Balázs Trencsényi |
Publisher | Central European University Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2006-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789637326523 |
Presents an interpretative synthesis that challenges the self-centered and "isolationist" historical narratives and educational canons prevalent in the many countries of Central and Southeast Europe. This title aims to confront 'mainstream' and seemingly successful national discourses with each other.
Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy
Title | Nationalism, Globalization, and Orthodoxy PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Roudometof |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2001-07-30 |
Genre | History |
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Roudometof provides an in-depth sociological analysis of the birth and historical evolution of nationalism in the Balkans. The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globalization over the last five centuries. With the growing contacts between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European system, the Eastern Orthodox of the Balkans abandoned the enthoconfessional system of social organization in favor of secular national identities. Prior to 1820, local nationalism was influenced by the Enlightenment, though later it came to be developed on an ethnonational basis. In the post-1830 Balkans, citizenship rights were subordinated to ethnic nationalism, according to which membership to a nation is accorded on the basis of church affiliation and ethnicity. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the discourse of nationhood was institutionalized by the native intelligentsia of the Balkan states. In the first half of the 20th century, the efforts of Balkan states to achieve national homogenization produced interstate rivalry, forced population exchanges, and discrimination against minority groups. While the Cold War helped contain some of these problems, the post-1989 period has seen a return of these issues to the forefront of the Balkan political agenda.
Mediterranean Diasporas
Title | Mediterranean Diasporas PDF eBook |
Author | Maurizio Isabella |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1472576667 |
Mediterranean Diasporas looks at the relationship between displacement and the circulation of ideas within and from the Mediterranean basin in the long 19th century. In bringing together leading historians working on Southern Europe, the Balkans, and the Ottoman Empire for the first time, it builds bridges across national historiographies, raises a number of comparative questions and unveils unexplored intellectual connections and ideological formulations. The book shows that in the so-called age of nationalism the idea of the nation state was by no means dominant, as displaced intellectuals and migrant communities developed notions of double national affiliations, imperial patriotism and liberal imperialism. By adopting the Mediterranean as a framework of analysis, the collection offers a fresh contribution to the growing field of transnational and global intellectual history, revising the genealogy of 19th-century nationalism and liberalism, and reveals new perspectives on the intellectual dynamics of the age of revolutions.