Secularism in context: The relations between the Greek State and the Church of Greece in Crisis

Archives Europeennes de Sociologie

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-167

  Karagiannis, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eastern Orthodoxy; Greece; Modernity; Nationalism; Secularism; State church relations

Indexed keywords

CHURCH ROLE; DEMOCRATIZATION; GLOBALIZATION; IDEOLOGY; MODERNITY; NATIONALISM;

GREECE;

EID: 77949806085     PISSN: 00039756     EISSN: 14740583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003975609000447     Document Type: Article

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