Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Europe
Abstract
It is often presumed that ecclesiastical autocephaly and national independence
worked together in South-Eastern Europe. But the paths of ecclesiastical and
political independence for Greeks and Serbs, Romanians and Bulgarians
were much more complex and less congruent than historians usually assume.
This volume explores the process of Orthodox Christianity’s ‘nationalization’ in the Bulgarian, Greek, Serbian and Romanian national contexts, its involvement in the changeful and ramified
ideology of nationalism, as well as the national churches’ cultural emancipation
from Constantinople as it entered the age of nationalism.
Keywords:
South East Europe / The Balkans / Cultural history / Christian Orthodox Church / Nationalism / National identity / Modernisation / HistoriographySource:
Slavonic and Eastern European Review, 2016, 94, 3, 548-550Publisher:
- London: Modern Humanities Research Association
- School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London