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An Orthodox Commonwealth
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
其他書名
Symbolic Legacies and Cultural Encounters in Southeastern Europe
出版Routledge, 2020-09-01
主題History / GeneralHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Europe / GeneralReligion / HistoryHistory / World
ISBN10003273889781000327380
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hW76DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This collection brings together fifteen studies on the survival and adaptation of the Orthodox religious and cultural tradition in the societies of Southeastern Europe after the fall of Constantinople, a world so often misunderstood and misinterpreted. This problem of cultural history is examined in a diversity of contexts and on multiple levels of analysis in order to elucidate issues of broader concern to social theory such as the fluidity and dynamic character of identity, the intricate encounter of religion and politics and the challenge of secular world views such as the Enlightenment and nationalism to traditional religious outlooks. The author argues consistently against all forms of reductionism, converses at length with the sources in order to pose questions to conventional views and invites the historical imagination to recover and understand a world submerged by the nationalist interpretation of the past. This task involves the recovery of the geographical pluralism that made Orthodox culture a truly transnational phenomenon. The collection accordingly brings into focus both the epicentres of Orthodox culture and symbolism such as Mt Athos and Constantinople, but also its hinterlands in Asia Minor and the Balkans.