The relationship between tradition and innovation in Orthodox Christianity has often been problematic, filled with tensions and contradictions starting from the Byzantine era and running through the 19th and 20th centuries. For a long period of time scholars have typically assumed Greek Orthodoxy to be a static religious tradition with little room for renewal or change. Although this public perception continues, the immutability of the Greek Orthodox tradition has been questioned by several scholars over the past few years. This book continues this line of reasoning, but brings it into the centre of contemporary discussion. Presenting case studies from different periods of history up to the present day, the authors trace different aspects in the development of innovation and renewal in Orthodox Christianity in the Greek-speaking world and among the Diaspora.
Conceptual Overview; 1: How Can We Speak of Innovation in the Greek
Orthodox Tradition? Towards a Typology of Innovation in Religion; 2: Orthodox
Christianity, Change, Innovation; Encounters with Other Christian
Denominations; 3: Double-Identity Churches on the Greek Islands under the
Venetians; 4: Religious Innovation or Political Strategy? The Rapprochements
of the Archbishop of Syros, Alexandros Lykourgos (18271875), towards the
Anglican Church; Adaptations to Modernity; 5: Emancipation through Celibacy?
The Sisterhoods of the Zoe Movement and their Role in the Development of
Christian Feminism' in Greece 19381960; 6: The New Sound of the Spiritual
Modern; Reform and Power Struggle in Religious Governance; 7: Holy Canons or
General Regulations? The Ecumenical Patriarchate vis-à-vis the Challenge of
Secularization in the Nineteenth Century; 8: An Innovative Local Orthodox
Model of Governance? The Shrine of Evangelistria on the Island of Tinos;
Change in Contemporary Socio-Political Contexts; 9: A New Role for Religion
in Greece? Theologians Challenging the Ethno-Religious Understanding of
Orthodoxy and Greekness; 10: From Mobilization to a Controlled Compromise;
Beyond National Borders: The Greek Orthodox Diaspora; 11: Innovation within
Greek Orthodox Theology in Australia: Archbishop Stylianos and the Mystique
of Indigenous Australian Spirituality; 12: Continuities and Change in Greek
American Orthodoxy
Trine Stauning Willert is Assistant Professor in Modern Greek studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research has focused on national identity, religion and education in contemporary Greece and the cultural relationship between Greece and Europe in a historical and contemporary perspective. Lina Molokotos-Liederman is an independent scholar and researcher specializing in international issues of religion and education, migration, social welfare and humanitarian aid. Educated in Greece, France and the United States, she received her MS in Mass Communication from Boston University and her PhD in the sociology of religion from the Ãcole Pratique des Hautes Ãtudes (EPHE) in Paris.
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