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Kontos, Grigorios (2020)

Religio-national symbiosis in Orthodox New Orleans in the second half of the nineteenth century

Master thesis | History (MA)

This paper investigates the relationship between national and religious identities within the context of the Christian Orthodox community of New Orleans in the second half of the nineteenth century. Against past conceptions relegating the importance of religious identity, it is argued that "religio-national symbiosis" or a harmonious, equal co-existence between national and religious identities was possible. This new concept allows us to regard this relationship with new eyes, away from modernist assumptions of the past.

Greek Orthodox

Slav Orthodox

Orthodox Church

Nationalism

Religion

Diaspora

New Orleans

Author

Kontos, Grigorios

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

ResMA: Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence

Supervisors

Pluskota, Marion

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en