[MGSA-L] Book publication announcement: The Orthodox reform

[Anastassios (Tassos) Anastassiadis, Prof.]

Please allow me to announce a publication that may be useful to those trying to understand Church-State relations, in Greece from a historical perspective. If you are perplexed by monks throwing acid to bishops during trials; discussions about the  "loose morals" of the clergy and the need for  "discipline";  monastic land scandals; or eager to find out about the interesting dialectics of social action and religious intolerance,  this book might contain some hints.

La réforme orthodoxe<https://www.efa.gr/index.php/fr/publications/catalogue-des-publications?id_fiche=838>
Église, État et société en Grèce à l’époque de la confessionnalisation post-ottomane (1833-1940)
Athens-Leuven: EFA/Peeters publishers

The Orthodox Reform is the first comprehensive sociohistorical account of the century-long process of the conservative renovation of the Greek orthodoxy church, a process that saw the passage to a « modern » religion, religious innovation and social activism come to rhyme with intolerance on both the religious and political fields. Based on extensive research in public and religious archives of Greece, France and the Vatican as well as an impressive array of pamphlets and periodicals  published all around the Eastern Mediterranean, it paints an unprecedented picture of what can be called the Greek-orthodox component of late ottoman confessionalization. Challenging the narratives of an uninterrupted link between an immutable orthodox Church entrenched in tradition and a Greek national state practising religious intolerance ever since its foundation, it argues that the current religious-political configuration in Greece is the product of the major transformations occurring during the Interwar when the zeal of orthodox activists from Greece and the Ottoman empire took advantage of the unparalleled social and national crisis following the 1922 Katastrophi to finally impulse what can be justly called the orthodox version of Reform and usher in a Greek-orthodox modernity.
The book also includes:

  *   statistical data regarding the clergy (related to population)  in all Greek municipalities/counties/departments during the 19th c.
  *   maps with the exact limits of ecclesiastical jurisdictions during the period studied.
  *   a chronological table with all the important dates between 1850 and 1940
  *   a prosopographical dictionary with more than 214 entries of individuals having played an important role in the Eastern mediterranean Greek-orthodox religious field during the period;
  *   the list of the 352 individuals having received a degree from the Faculty of Theology of the National University of Athens for the period 1837-1914;
  *   a unique digital humanities tool <https://geoeglise.efa.gr> following Open Data principles and allowing a multi-scalar mapping and visualization of statistical evidence regarding Greek-orthodoxy giving a distinct identity car for each municipality, department or diocese.

Tassos Anastassiadis
Associate professor | Phrixos Papachristidis chair in Modern Greek & Greek-canadian studies | Director of Classical studies
History and Classical Studies Department
McGill University
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Dernière parution /  Latest book: La Réforme orthodoxe / The Orthodox Reform<https://www.efa.gr/index.php/fr/publications/catalogue-des-publications?id_fiche=838>

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