Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Grace Davie -- Introduction : Tradition, transition and change in Greek orthodoxy at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Vasilios N. Makrides and Victor Roudometof -- Part I : Orthodox Christianity, Greek ethnicity and politics -- The evolution of Greek orthodoxy in the context of world historical globalization / Victor Roudometof -- An intriguing true-false paradox : the entanglement of modernization and intolerance in the Orthodox Church of Greece / Anastassios Anastassiadis -- Scandals, secret agents and corruption : the Orthodox Church of Greece during the 2005 crisis : its relations to the state and modernization / Vasilios N. Makrides -- Domesticating Islam and Muslim immigrants : political and church responses to constructing a central mosque in Athens / Dia Anagnostou and Ruby Gropas -- Non-Orthodox minorities in contemporary Greece : legal status and concomitant debates between church, state and the international community / Prodromos Yannas -- Part 2 : Orthodox Christianity and Greek culture -- 'The traditional modern' : rethinking the position of contemporary Greek women to orthodoxy / Eleni Sotiriu -- The mosque that was not there : ethnographic elaborations on Orthodox conceptions of sacrifice / Dimitris Antoniou -- Religion and welfare in Greece : a new or renewed role for the church? / Effie Fokas -- Faith and trust : tracking patterns of religious and civic commitment in Greece and Europe : an empirical approach / Theoni Stathopoulou -- Sacred words in a secular beat : the free monks phenomenon at the intersection of religion, youth and popular culture / Lina Molokotos-Liederman.

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