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The grand narrative on Eastern Orthodoxy’s place in (Western) Europe The grand narrative on Eastern Orthodoxy’s place in (Western) Europe
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Orthodoxies and Europe(s) Orthodoxies and Europe(s)
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Europe and/or the European Union? A temporal perspective Europe and/or the European Union? A temporal perspective
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Views from within and from without Views from within and from without
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27 Eastern Orthodoxy and Europe
Get accessEffie Fokas is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where she was Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project ‘Grassroots Mobilisations in the Shadow of European Court of Human Rights Religious Freedoms Jurisprudence (Grassrootsmobilise)’, and Marie Curie Fellow studying Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Majority Orthodox Contexts (PLUREL). She is a Research Associate of the LSE Hellenic Observatory and a member of the Henry Luce/Leadership 100 project on Orthodoxy and Human Rights (Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University, New York). Her background is in political science with a PhD in political sociology from the London School of Economics. Her publications include: (co-edited with Aziz Al-Azmeh) Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2007); (co-authored with Peter Berger and Grace Davie) Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations (Ashgate, 2008); (co-edited with James T. Richardson) ‘The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions’, Religion, State and Society, 2017, 45(3–4).
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Published:08 December 2021
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Abstract
This chapter considers the relationship between ‘Orthodoxies’ and ‘Europes’, highlighting the multiplicity of Eastern Christian Orthodox approaches and attitudes towards Europe, from one majority Orthodox national context to another and one historical period to another, ranging from anti-Europeanism (and anti-Westernism) to Europhilism. It also draws attention to differences in Orthodox stances on the idea of Europe, on the one hand, and the political reality of the European unification project, on the other. A temporal perspective is particularly relevant in changing attitudes to the European Union. Special attention is paid to external perspectives on the relationship between ‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Europe’, often politicized and influenced by the political turmoil in the Balkans. The chapter closes with reference to the situation of flux characterizing contemporary conceptions of Europe, and the impact of the latter on ‘Orthodoxy’ in relation to ‘Europe’.
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