{"id":27571,"date":"2012-11-11T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/neo-vivlio-thriskeia-kai-ethnikismos-se-ellada-kai-tourkia-mia-iera-synthesi\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:04:00","slug":"neo-vivlio-thriskeia-kai-ethnikismos-se-ellada-kai-tourkia-mia-iera-synthesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/neo-vivlio-thriskeia-kai-ethnikismos-se-ellada-kai-tourkia-mia-iera-synthesi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A &#8216;Sacred Synthesis&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ioannis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12819\" title=\"Ioannis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ioannis2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"66\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a>This book authored by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis is the first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation\u00a0of Greek and Turkish nationalisms.The book argues that the shift to an\u00a0increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms\u00a0of the exigencies of consolidation and the need to appeal to grassroots\u00a0elements and account for diversity. You can find more information on the book of Dr Grigoriadis\u00a0<a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/instillingreligioningreekandturkishnationalism\/IoannisNGrigoriadis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editorial Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;This inspiring comparative case study is not on two nations only but on two\u00a0religions too. The shift from secularism to a synthesis that incorporates\u00a0religion in both Greece and Turkey can be read as an enriched model that\u00a0widens our analytical perspectives on nation-building and identities.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Hercules (Iraklis) Millas, political scientist, Athens, Greece<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;George Bernard Shaw is rumored to have said once that &#8216;England and America<br \/>\nare two countries separated by the same language.&#8217; If we want to rewrite\u00a0this statement for Greeks and Turks in modern times, we might easily say\u00a0that &#8216;Greece and Turkey are two countries separated by the same political\u00a0culture.&#8217; One of the basic ingredients of this shared political culture was\u00a0the use and abuse of religion and of religious sentiments of the masses for\u00a0nationalist projects. Although the performance of the Greek nation-state was\u00a0considered to be a &#8216;success story&#8217; by the founding fathers of Turkish\u00a0nationalism, in that it nationalized the Orthodox Church and hence ironed\u00a0out its ecumenical\/universal characteristics in the last quarter of the\u00a0nineteenth century, Turkish nationalist elites were about a century late\u00a0when it came to nationalizing Islam. Dr. Grigoriadis&#8217; treatment of the\u00a0subject will generate debate on the both sides of the Aegean.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ayhan\u00a0Aktar, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book authored by Ioannis N. Grigoriadis is the first comparative study to examine the role of religion in the formation\u00a0of Greek and Turkish nationalisms.The book argues that the shift to an\u00a0increasingly religious paradigm in both countries can be explained in terms\u00a0of the exigencies of consolidation and the need to appeal to grassroots\u00a0elements and account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":27572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[132,230,107,231],"program":[20],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44320,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27571\/revisions\/44320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27571"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=27571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}