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.