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Books by Victor Roudometof

Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece, 2016

The Macedonian question : culture, historiography, politics

This interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question illustrates the intimate connections b... more This interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question illustrates the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia. Topics covered include the construction of Macedonian national identity in Australia and Northern Greece.

Το βιβλίο αυτό αποσκοπεί σε μια κοινωνιολογική ανάλυση του Μακεδονικού Ζητήματος. Προτάσσεται μια... more Το βιβλίο αυτό αποσκοπεί σε μια κοινωνιολογική ανάλυση του Μακεδονικού Ζητήματος. Προτάσσεται μια γενική εισαγωγή αναφορικά με τα ζητήματα συλλογικής μνήμης, εθνικής συγκρότησης και εθνοτικής αντιπαράθεσης, όπως αυτά εμφανίζονται στα Βαλκάνια από τα μέσα του 19ου αιώνα. Παρουσιάζεται επίσης και μια επισκόπηση του «ονοματολογικού» ζητήματος της δεκαετίας του '90, όπως αυτό βιώθηκε στην Ελλάδα και τη Βουλγαρία.

Το Μακεδονικό Ζήτημα προσεγγίζεται ως ένα θέμα που οφείλει την ύπαρξή του στην παραγωγή και διατήρηση διαφορετικών, αλληλοαναιρούμενων και αλληλοσυγκρουόμενων, εθνικών αφηγήσεων από τα εμπλεκόμενα μέρη (Ελλάδα, Βουλγαρία κ.λπ.), που οδηγούν σε αδυναμία εύρεσης αμοιβαία αποδεκτών συμβιβασμών. Ο συγγραφέας αποδομεί αυτές τις αφηγήσεις με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στις σύγχρονες εκφάνσεις τους, όπως διαμορφώθηκαν μετά το τέλος του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Εν τέλει, σε αντιπαράθεση προς αυτές, αναπτύσσει μια δική του τρίτη (και εκτός πλαισίου αντιπαλότητας) ερμηνεία.

Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the 21st century

Routledge, 2002

It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and mone... more It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cybercommunities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

Greenwood, 2001

The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globaliz... more The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globalization over the last five centuries. With the growing contacts between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European system, the Eastern Orthodox of the Balkans abandoned the entho-confessional system of social organization in favor of secular national identities.

Prior to 1820, local nationalism was influenced by the Enlightenment, though later it came to be developed on an ethnonational basis. In the post-1830 Balkans, citizenship rights were subordinated to ethnic nationalism, according to which membership to a nation is accorded on the basis of church affiliation and ethnicity. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the discourse of nationhood was institutionalized by the native intelligentsia of the Balkan states. In the first half of the 20th century, the efforts of Balkan states to achieve national homogenization produced interstate rivalry, forced population exchanges, and discrimination against minority groups. While the Cold War helped contain some of these problems, the post-1989 period has seen a return of these issues to the forefront of the Balkan political agenda.

This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globaliza... more This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution to the relationship between religion and globalization, as well as the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the sociology of religion – and more broadly, the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies.

While deeply engaged with history, this book does not simply narrate the history of Orthodox Christianity as a world religion, nor does it address theological issues or cover all the individual trajectories of each subgroup or subdivision of the faith. Orthodox Christianity is the object of the analysis, but author Victor Roudometof speaks to a broader audience interested in culture, religion, and globalization. Roudometof argues in favor of using globalization instead of modernization as the main theoretical vehicle for analyzing religion, displacing secularization in order to argue for multiple hybridizations of religion as a suitable strategy for analyzing religious phenomena. It offers Orthodox Christianity as a test case that illustrates the presence of historically specific but theoretically distinct glocalizations, applicable to all faiths.

Book chapters by Victor Roudometof

Cosmopolitanism and Europe , 2007

Ever since Beck's (1999) cosmopolitan manifesto, a heated debate has erupted among academics and ... more Ever since Beck's (1999) cosmopolitan manifesto, a heated debate has erupted among academics and other intellectuals about the vision for a twenty-firstcentury society. Thus far, several varieties of cosmopolitan projects have been proposed and each carries with it highly important practical consequences for twenty-first-century Europe. an analysis of the alternative pathways of political, economic and social development and their consequent scenarios for European societies leads Beck (2000) to raise the call 'Cosmopolitans of the world unite!' While this call is addressed to the 'world', a significant aspect of the emerging literature on cosmopolitanism concerns Europe. Beck (2000) is certainly aware of this geographical dimension of his analysis-for his work is designed to address the possibility that a future united Europe will mirror Brazil or the US, which would encompass the collapse of the welfare state and, indeed, the entire structure of society and lifestyles associated with Europe since the end of the Second World War. Thus conceived, the cosmopolitan project provides an ideological infrastructure for a strategy to construct a Europe that will not be a passive recipient of US-sponsored neo-liberalism. Without being uttered, the cosmopolitan state of the future is the future European state, a state that can exist only by opposing both the influence of US economic liberalism and local 'national' protectionism. 'Nationalism has now become the enemy of Europe's nations', Beck and Giddens (2005) proclaim, in an attempt to convince the European public of the need to find a solution to the impasse brought about in the European scene in the aftermath of the failed referendums on the constitution for the European Union (EU) in France and the Netherlands in 2005. attempting to walk the very fine line of populist cosmopolitanism is difficult enough. But to make such an ambition even more problematic there is no specific or uniform definition of cosmopolitanism itself (see Delanty and rumford 2005;

Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age , 2005

I am an Orthodox and I must help my Serb brethren against the Muslims. A Greek volunteer fighting... more I am an Orthodox and I must help my Serb brethren against the Muslims. A Greek volunteer fighting alongside the Bosnian Serb forces, quoted in newspaper Eleftherotypia, 8 July 1993 THE COLLAPSE OF communism in Eastern Europe reconfigured the spatial boundaries in the cultural and symbolic geography of post-World War II Europe. Out of the ashes of the post-World War II division of Europe into a Western and an Eastern camp, new symbolic boundaries reemerged whereby Eastern-Central Europe and Southeastern Europe (SEE or "the Balkans") divided the continent once again. In this redrawing of the symbolic boundaries, Greece, the sole representative of SEE into EU, has been viewed repeatedly as quite problematic in its commitment to European norms and implementation of EU direc-ORTHODOXY AS PUBLIC RELIGION IN POST-1989 GREECE 87 chap04.qxd 12/30/04

Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering , 2011

Cosmopolitanism and Empirical Social Research

Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, 2013

Eastern Christianities and Politics in the Twenty-First Century , 2014

The relationship between globalisation and Orthodox Christianity is a hitherto underdeveloped the... more The relationship between globalisation and Orthodox Christianity is a hitherto underdeveloped theme in the social scientifi c literature. This chapter addresses this topic in a twofold manner. On the one hand, it illustrates the multiple engagements of the Eastern forms of Christianity with worldhistorical globalisation through a consideration of its pre-modern era-an era that is of critical importance for understanding the formation of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity. On the other hand, it focuses more extensively upon the entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalisation in the modern (1830s-1945) and contemporary (1945-present) periods. 1 Given this volume's thematic focus, this chapter maintains a balance between historical and contemporary foci, with greater attention given to discussing the recent processes of nationalisation and transnationalisation. The chapter's opening section highlights the historical legacy of the various churches typically included under the label of 'Eastern Christianity'. Instead of the conventional dichotomy between Western and Eastern Christianity, it suggests a historically more accurate division between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian forms of Christianity. Within Chalcedonian Christianity, a further historical division concerns the gradual consolidation of two distinct branches, those of Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The chapter's second section addresses the historically more recent and in many instances still ongoing processes of Orthodox Christianity's nationalisation and transnationalisation. These two processes suggest that globalisation's infl uence upon the reshaping of Orthodox Christianity has been quite consequential. In Orthodox nation-states, a modern synthesis between church and nation has ensued-a powerful instance of religious resacralisation that illustrates religion's continuing relevance. In the chapter's other sections, attention is focused on the current and future prospects of Orthodox Christianity. In particular, the thesis of Moscow and Constantinople as powerful rival institutions is critically reviewed. It is suggested that the two institutions' relationship is far more complicated than conventionally assumed. The chapter concludes with some speculations concerning the prospects of Orthodox Christianity in the course of the twenty-fi rst century.

National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative , 2005

Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism and Globalization , 2020

One of the most contentious facets of the various inter- and cross- disciplinary debates on globa... more One of the most contentious facets of the various inter- and cross- disciplinary debates on globalization concerns the attempt to delineate specific facets or dimensions of globalization (such as political, economic or cultural globalization). This paper is an effort to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries that are typical of most classifications. Its goal is to introduce and describe a distinction of globalization into integral and interactive. This distinction is directly linked to a general or analytical conception of globalization as involving the worldwide spread of practices, objects, blueprints and other facets of culture. The objective is to develop a framework that can accommodate the multiple and varied uses of globalization across the social scientific literature. In principle, globalization can be both integral and interactive. That is, on the one hand, globalization might lead to the formation of a new level of relations and produce new objects of inquiry that exist at a level beyond that of the nation-state or the national society; while, on the other hand, globalization can also be self-limiting or involve mere increased interconnectedness among the units of interaction in the world stage. In contrast to past interpretations, it is important to realize that both outcomes are theoretically valid eventualities and consequently to treat these not in terms of theoretical a priori but instead as concrete developments that take place in the real world. While interpretations from within the world polity or world society perspective echo some of the features of the perspective outlined in this discussion, the proposed interpretation does not look upon global modernization as involving acculturation into the West. In contrast, it does accommodate multiple flows of cross-cultural interaction. In this respect, the proposed interpretation offers a means for grasping the increased multi-faceted importance of the East in the 21st century. Additionally, in this framework it is possible to distinguish between (a) global culture or culture at the global level and (b) various glocalization processes, which can become a new source of heterogeneity and difference worldwide. The arguments developed in this contribution aim to complement and extent some of the arguments made in Glocalization: a critical introduction (2016).

Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece, 2016

The Macedonian question : culture, historiography, politics

This interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question illustrates the intimate connections b... more This interdisciplinary analysis of the Macedonian Question illustrates the intimate connections between culture and ethnic politics in Macedonia. Topics covered include the construction of Macedonian national identity in Australia and Northern Greece.

Το βιβλίο αυτό αποσκοπεί σε μια κοινωνιολογική ανάλυση του Μακεδονικού Ζητήματος. Προτάσσεται μια... more Το βιβλίο αυτό αποσκοπεί σε μια κοινωνιολογική ανάλυση του Μακεδονικού Ζητήματος. Προτάσσεται μια γενική εισαγωγή αναφορικά με τα ζητήματα συλλογικής μνήμης, εθνικής συγκρότησης και εθνοτικής αντιπαράθεσης, όπως αυτά εμφανίζονται στα Βαλκάνια από τα μέσα του 19ου αιώνα. Παρουσιάζεται επίσης και μια επισκόπηση του «ονοματολογικού» ζητήματος της δεκαετίας του '90, όπως αυτό βιώθηκε στην Ελλάδα και τη Βουλγαρία.

Το Μακεδονικό Ζήτημα προσεγγίζεται ως ένα θέμα που οφείλει την ύπαρξή του στην παραγωγή και διατήρηση διαφορετικών, αλληλοαναιρούμενων και αλληλοσυγκρουόμενων, εθνικών αφηγήσεων από τα εμπλεκόμενα μέρη (Ελλάδα, Βουλγαρία κ.λπ.), που οδηγούν σε αδυναμία εύρεσης αμοιβαία αποδεκτών συμβιβασμών. Ο συγγραφέας αποδομεί αυτές τις αφηγήσεις με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση στις σύγχρονες εκφάνσεις τους, όπως διαμορφώθηκαν μετά το τέλος του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου. Εν τέλει, σε αντιπαράθεση προς αυτές, αναπτύσσει μια δική του τρίτη (και εκτός πλαισίου αντιπαλότητας) ερμηνεία.

Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the 21st century

Routledge, 2002

It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and mone... more It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cybercommunities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

Greenwood, 2001

The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globaliz... more The rise of nationalism in the region is viewed as part of a world-historical process of globalization over the last five centuries. With the growing contacts between the Ottoman Empire and the Western European system, the Eastern Orthodox of the Balkans abandoned the entho-confessional system of social organization in favor of secular national identities.

Prior to 1820, local nationalism was influenced by the Enlightenment, though later it came to be developed on an ethnonational basis. In the post-1830 Balkans, citizenship rights were subordinated to ethnic nationalism, according to which membership to a nation is accorded on the basis of church affiliation and ethnicity. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the discourse of nationhood was institutionalized by the native intelligentsia of the Balkan states. In the first half of the 20th century, the efforts of Balkan states to achieve national homogenization produced interstate rivalry, forced population exchanges, and discrimination against minority groups. While the Cold War helped contain some of these problems, the post-1989 period has seen a return of these issues to the forefront of the Balkan political agenda.

This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globaliza... more This book examines the rich and complex entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalization, offering a substantive contribution to the relationship between religion and globalization, as well as the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the sociology of religion – and more broadly, the interdisciplinary field of Religious Studies.

While deeply engaged with history, this book does not simply narrate the history of Orthodox Christianity as a world religion, nor does it address theological issues or cover all the individual trajectories of each subgroup or subdivision of the faith. Orthodox Christianity is the object of the analysis, but author Victor Roudometof speaks to a broader audience interested in culture, religion, and globalization. Roudometof argues in favor of using globalization instead of modernization as the main theoretical vehicle for analyzing religion, displacing secularization in order to argue for multiple hybridizations of religion as a suitable strategy for analyzing religious phenomena. It offers Orthodox Christianity as a test case that illustrates the presence of historically specific but theoretically distinct glocalizations, applicable to all faiths.

Cosmopolitanism and Europe , 2007

Ever since Beck's (1999) cosmopolitan manifesto, a heated debate has erupted among academics and ... more Ever since Beck's (1999) cosmopolitan manifesto, a heated debate has erupted among academics and other intellectuals about the vision for a twenty-firstcentury society. Thus far, several varieties of cosmopolitan projects have been proposed and each carries with it highly important practical consequences for twenty-first-century Europe. an analysis of the alternative pathways of political, economic and social development and their consequent scenarios for European societies leads Beck (2000) to raise the call 'Cosmopolitans of the world unite!' While this call is addressed to the 'world', a significant aspect of the emerging literature on cosmopolitanism concerns Europe. Beck (2000) is certainly aware of this geographical dimension of his analysis-for his work is designed to address the possibility that a future united Europe will mirror Brazil or the US, which would encompass the collapse of the welfare state and, indeed, the entire structure of society and lifestyles associated with Europe since the end of the Second World War. Thus conceived, the cosmopolitan project provides an ideological infrastructure for a strategy to construct a Europe that will not be a passive recipient of US-sponsored neo-liberalism. Without being uttered, the cosmopolitan state of the future is the future European state, a state that can exist only by opposing both the influence of US economic liberalism and local 'national' protectionism. 'Nationalism has now become the enemy of Europe's nations', Beck and Giddens (2005) proclaim, in an attempt to convince the European public of the need to find a solution to the impasse brought about in the European scene in the aftermath of the failed referendums on the constitution for the European Union (EU) in France and the Netherlands in 2005. attempting to walk the very fine line of populist cosmopolitanism is difficult enough. But to make such an ambition even more problematic there is no specific or uniform definition of cosmopolitanism itself (see Delanty and rumford 2005;

Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age , 2005

I am an Orthodox and I must help my Serb brethren against the Muslims. A Greek volunteer fighting... more I am an Orthodox and I must help my Serb brethren against the Muslims. A Greek volunteer fighting alongside the Bosnian Serb forces, quoted in newspaper Eleftherotypia, 8 July 1993 THE COLLAPSE OF communism in Eastern Europe reconfigured the spatial boundaries in the cultural and symbolic geography of post-World War II Europe. Out of the ashes of the post-World War II division of Europe into a Western and an Eastern camp, new symbolic boundaries reemerged whereby Eastern-Central Europe and Southeastern Europe (SEE or "the Balkans") divided the continent once again. In this redrawing of the symbolic boundaries, Greece, the sole representative of SEE into EU, has been viewed repeatedly as quite problematic in its commitment to European norms and implementation of EU direc-ORTHODOXY AS PUBLIC RELIGION IN POST-1989 GREECE 87 chap04.qxd 12/30/04

Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering , 2011

Cosmopolitanism and Empirical Social Research

Routledge Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, 2013

Eastern Christianities and Politics in the Twenty-First Century , 2014

The relationship between globalisation and Orthodox Christianity is a hitherto underdeveloped the... more The relationship between globalisation and Orthodox Christianity is a hitherto underdeveloped theme in the social scientifi c literature. This chapter addresses this topic in a twofold manner. On the one hand, it illustrates the multiple engagements of the Eastern forms of Christianity with worldhistorical globalisation through a consideration of its pre-modern era-an era that is of critical importance for understanding the formation of the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity. On the other hand, it focuses more extensively upon the entanglements between Orthodox Christianity and globalisation in the modern (1830s-1945) and contemporary (1945-present) periods. 1 Given this volume's thematic focus, this chapter maintains a balance between historical and contemporary foci, with greater attention given to discussing the recent processes of nationalisation and transnationalisation. The chapter's opening section highlights the historical legacy of the various churches typically included under the label of 'Eastern Christianity'. Instead of the conventional dichotomy between Western and Eastern Christianity, it suggests a historically more accurate division between Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian forms of Christianity. Within Chalcedonian Christianity, a further historical division concerns the gradual consolidation of two distinct branches, those of Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity. The chapter's second section addresses the historically more recent and in many instances still ongoing processes of Orthodox Christianity's nationalisation and transnationalisation. These two processes suggest that globalisation's infl uence upon the reshaping of Orthodox Christianity has been quite consequential. In Orthodox nation-states, a modern synthesis between church and nation has ensued-a powerful instance of religious resacralisation that illustrates religion's continuing relevance. In the chapter's other sections, attention is focused on the current and future prospects of Orthodox Christianity. In particular, the thesis of Moscow and Constantinople as powerful rival institutions is critically reviewed. It is suggested that the two institutions' relationship is far more complicated than conventionally assumed. The chapter concludes with some speculations concerning the prospects of Orthodox Christianity in the course of the twenty-fi rst century.

National Symbols, Fractured Identities: Contesting the National Narrative , 2005

Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter: Essays on Borders, Cosmopolitanism and Globalization , 2020

One of the most contentious facets of the various inter- and cross- disciplinary debates on globa... more One of the most contentious facets of the various inter- and cross- disciplinary debates on globalization concerns the attempt to delineate specific facets or dimensions of globalization (such as political, economic or cultural globalization). This paper is an effort to go beyond the disciplinary boundaries that are typical of most classifications. Its goal is to introduce and describe a distinction of globalization into integral and interactive. This distinction is directly linked to a general or analytical conception of globalization as involving the worldwide spread of practices, objects, blueprints and other facets of culture. The objective is to develop a framework that can accommodate the multiple and varied uses of globalization across the social scientific literature. In principle, globalization can be both integral and interactive. That is, on the one hand, globalization might lead to the formation of a new level of relations and produce new objects of inquiry that exist at a level beyond that of the nation-state or the national society; while, on the other hand, globalization can also be self-limiting or involve mere increased interconnectedness among the units of interaction in the world stage. In contrast to past interpretations, it is important to realize that both outcomes are theoretically valid eventualities and consequently to treat these not in terms of theoretical a priori but instead as concrete developments that take place in the real world. While interpretations from within the world polity or world society perspective echo some of the features of the perspective outlined in this discussion, the proposed interpretation does not look upon global modernization as involving acculturation into the West. In contrast, it does accommodate multiple flows of cross-cultural interaction. In this respect, the proposed interpretation offers a means for grasping the increased multi-faceted importance of the East in the 21st century. Additionally, in this framework it is possible to distinguish between (a) global culture or culture at the global level and (b) various glocalization processes, which can become a new source of heterogeneity and difference worldwide. The arguments developed in this contribution aim to complement and extent some of the arguments made in Glocalization: a critical introduction (2016).

The new conceptual vocabulary of the social sciences: the ‘globalization debates’ in context

Routledge eBooks, Sep 7, 2021

Eastern Christianities and Politics in the Twenty-First Century , 2014

The Orthodox Church of Cyprus (OCC) belongs to the group of Orthodox churches that did not experi... more The Orthodox Church of Cyprus (OCC) belongs to the group of Orthodox churches that did not experience communism. However, its role in the island's political life changed considerably over the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter outlines the Church's continuing important public role, as well as the broader appeal Orthodox Christianity maintains among the Greek Cypriot Orthodox community. For this purpose, the chapter addresses a series of important institutional developments. These culminated in the election of Archbishop Chrysostomos II in 2006 and the subsequent drafting of a new Constitution. The new Constitution made important changes relating to a broad spectrum of issues. The chapter examines the Church's engagements with regard to education, cultural heritage, EU-related and inter-faith dialogue issues. These engagements illustrate the multifaceted and complex involvement of the Church in an entire range of topics relevant to society and culture in Cyprus.

American Culture in Europe, 1998

8 The Space between the Boundaries: Globalization and Americanization Victor Roudometof and Rolan... more 8 The Space between the Boundaries: Globalization and Americanization Victor Roudometof and Roland Robertson Formerly each society to which history gave ... located in advanced capitalist societies while the actual plans are relocated in the global periphery (Sassen 1996: 6 ...

European Glocalization in Global Context, 2014

To this day, the historical intertwining between religion and globalization remains a relatively ... more To this day, the historical intertwining between religion and globalization remains a relatively understudied area of scholarship (for two notable exceptions, see Beyer, 2006; Warburg, 2006; for a general overview, Roudometof, forthcoming). In contrast to conventional perspectives, adopting a long-term view of globalization necessarily entails decentring the conventional narrative of Western modernization (O’Brien, 2006). Such a global-historical perspective entails the notion that pre-modern globalization was both important and consequential for humanity. It is furthermore important to incorporate into the analysis of the longue duree the realization that globalization does not annihilate life worlds and local structures and settings but rather interacts with them, producing new social and cultural configurations. Hence, the process is more accurately referred to as “glocalization”. As Robertson (1994) has suggested, glocalization offers a means of comprehending and interpreting cultural variety, hybridity, and fragmentation within the context of the problematic of global-local relations. While Robertson (1991: 282; Robertson and Garrett, 1991: xv) has referred to religion as a “genre of expression, communication and legitimation” for collective and individual identities, current perspectives have yet to illuminate the historical specifics of the manner in which these “glocal” identities are articulated within the framework of globalization analysis.

Glocalization and social theory: A critical review

Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece, 2016

a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e... more a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e. c o m a s h g a t e .

Handbook of Culture and Glocalization, 2022

Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, 2018

Since the dawn of the 21st century the term has been among the most widely discussed topics in ac... more Since the dawn of the 21st century the term has been among the most widely discussed topics in academia (for reviews, see . Given this burgeoning literature, it is clear that the cosmopolitan agenda is a major focus for scholars in the humanities and social sciences. This chapter addresses the contours of cosmopolitanism in the field of empirical social research. While offering an overview of main trends in empirical research, the chapter further attempts to develop an argument concerning the relationship between cosmopolitanism and social research. This requires meta-theoretical reflection, in large part due to the polysemous nature of cosmopolitanism. Current uses of the term 'cosmopolitanism' vary widely depending upon the field or discipline in which the term is employed. Whatever classification is applied, it is clear that a distinction is made between the intellectual conversation concerning the viability of new foundations for normative principles versus research into 'actually existing cosmopolitanism' ( Robbins 1998 : 3), that is, cosmopolitanism as an existing social reality. The entanglement between social theory and social research therefore assumes different formats depending upon the goals or objectives of theorists and researchers. Reflecting this difference, this chapter's first section offers a two-fold classification of the different meanings attached to the term 'cosmopolitan': One interpretation uses the term as an analytical category whereas another deploys it as a substantive category. In the opening section, there is an overview with some examples of these uses of cosmopolitan in the literature. I argue that both of these categories can provide the means for empirical research. In the next section, I critically review claims that the cosmopolitan imagination requires developing new methodological tools for the social sciences. Different avenues of qualitative and quantitative social research into cosmopolitan are presented. These avenues suggest a plurality of interpretations of cosmopolitan and offer conflicting results.

Greek Americans and transnationalism : Religion, class and community

Rethinking the Space for Religion: New Actors in Central and Southeast Europe on Religion, Authenticity and Belonging , Feb 1, 2012

Oxford University Press eBooks, Sep 2, 2020

This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology ... more This chapter offers an overview of the historical trajectory of comparative-historical sociology while focusing on the issue of development of specific methodological approaches. The legacy of sociology’s founding fathers is discussed first, followed by an overview of the post–World War II U.S.-based academic research program that led to the institutional organization and academic acceptance of the field. The chapter then offers an assessment of the effect of the cultural turn to comparative-historical sociology by addressing the themes of temporality and narrative. It argues that in the early 21st century the field displays a variety of methodological strategies or perspectives and that this tolerance toward varied methodologies is likely to be a permanent feature. It concludes with an assessment of the new or emerging areas that seem to offer room for further research.

Communities across borders, Aug 27, 2002

Diogenes, Jan 7, 2024

Sociology emerged in the course of Western modernization; its major classical-era statements are ... more Sociology emerged in the course of Western modernization; its major classical-era statements are preoccupied with modernity and its impact on national societies. After decolonization, 'Third World' modernization paved the way for the notion of globalization. The sociology of globalization is a current specialty within US and European sociological associations. The promise of global sociology has been on the agenda of the International Sociological Association since at least 1990. At a deeper level, global sociology requires un-thinking the role of core concepts such as modernity or religion or society vis-à-vis their Western origins. Global Studies and post-colonial sociology, two of the most widely known research fields claiming global intent, are examined with respect to whether they provide adequate conceptual resources for global sociology. While the research agendas of both offer promising insights, inquiry suggests that both suffer from important drawbacks. The sociological tradition is now facing an impasse; fragmentation may persist, but other possibilities also exist. No grand solution is perhaps possible. A truly global sociology may eventually emerge from the original interpretations that develop from non-Western historical paths.

Religion, State and Society, 2015

In 2013, Jerry Pankhurst of Wittenberg University and I co-organised two panels on Orthodox Chris... more In 2013, Jerry Pankhurst of Wittenberg University and I co-organised two panels on Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe for the biennial congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (Turku/Åbo, Finland). The planning and preparation of the panels was an opportunity to rekindle our past collaboration (Roudometof, Agadjanian, and Pankhurst 2005) in the field of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Unfortunately, because of health reasons, I was unable to attend the conference. Afterwards, however, I felt that I should take the initiative in arranging for the publication of the panel papers. Thus started a long journey that concludes with the papers presented in this issue of Religion, State & Society. In pursuing the topic of the presence of Orthodox Christianity in Western Europe, I was aware that this was a new but underdeveloped area of inquiry (for an overview of Eastern Christianity, see Leustean 2014). In my past efforts to explore the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and transnational religiosity (Roudometof 2000, 2014), it seemed quite appropriate to focus on North America, where Orthodoxy has a well-documented presence. In contrast, information and scholarship on Western Europe was almost nonexistent. Traditionally, both researchers and laypeople are accustomed to think of Eastern Europe as predominantly (if not exclusively) Eastern Orthodox, and similarly, to think of Western Europe as overwhelmingly Catholic and Protestant. But the world’s religious demography is ever-changing. Over the course of the post-WorldWar II era and evenmore so since the end of communism in Eastern Europe, this traditional image has been transformed. While not claiming to be an authoritative account, even the cursory demographic information conveyed in the following pages suggests that the number of Eastern Orthodox Christians in Western Europe is rapidly approaching or even surpassing the number of Eastern Orthodox Christians in North America. The overall figures might not be high, but one should recall that Orthodox Christianity has a history of several centuries in North America. The new immigrant communities of Orthodox Christians in Western Europe remain an understudied group. This special section is only the second scholarly effort to inquire into their situation (the other one is Hämmerli and Mayer 2014). Reliable figures are hard to come by, and there are countries – such as Spain – where there is a notable absence of researchers working on this group. An additional source of difficulties is the result of the shifting geopolitics in Europe. During the Cold War era, the definitions of ‘East’ and ‘West’ were fairly clear and coterminous with specific political regimes. In the era since 1989, however, there has been a geopolitical shift, whereby countries that used to be part of the communist bloc

Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2003

This special issue of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology is devoted to presenting a ... more This special issue of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology is devoted to presenting a series of studies on the politics of collective memory. In this brief introduction, I outline the main issues that the current special collection of articles is attempting to explore. Next, I briefly discuss the ways individual contributions are advancing this emerging research field.

Religion, State and Society, 2015

In this article I analyse Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion. In the first section... more In this article I analyse Orthodox Christianity as a transnational religion. In the first section I develop a theoretical argument concerning the relationship among diaspora, transnationalism and Orthodoxy. Seen through these lenses, transnationalism represents a newfound situation connected to the epochal shift from empires to nation-states. I then give a historical overview of demographic trends which shows that in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries millions of Orthodox emigrated to North America and Western Europe; while large Orthodox groups were created in the USA by the early twentieth century, the majority of Orthodox immigrants to Canada, Australia and Western Europe are post-1945 arrivals. I then offer a brief overview of the situation of Orthodox transnationalism in the post-Soviet space since 1989, and argue that in contrast to that situation, it is the experience of migration that is most accurately captured by the label of religious transnationalism. Lastly, I conduct an initial comparison of North American and European experiences. The current fragmentation of Orthodox jurisdictions reflects the creation of autonomous church organisations or groups of parishes that extend the jurisdictions of Mother Churches into the host states. I contemplate the consequences of religious transnationalism for future developments.

Since the 1960s, the concepts of the ‘global’ and the ‘transnational’ have challenged the state-c... more Since the 1960s, the concepts of the ‘global’ and the ‘transnational’ have challenged the state-centred orientation of several disciplines. By 1989, the ‘global’ contained sufficient ambiguity and conceptual promise to emerge as a potentially new central concept to replace the conventional notion of modernity. The consequences of the 1989 revolutions for this emerging concept were extensive. As a result of the post-communist ‘New World Order’, a new vision of a single triumphant political and economic system was put forward. With the ‘globalizing of modernity’ as a description of the post-1989 reality, ‘globalization’ became the policy mantra of the Clinton and Blair administrations up until the late 1990s when ‘anti-globalization’ activists were able to question the salience of this dominant theory of ‘globalization’. In scholarly discussion, ‘globalization’ became a floating signifier to be filled with a variety of disciplinary and political meanings. In the post-9/11 era, this Western-centred ‘globalization’ has been conceptually linked to cosmopolitanism while it has played a minor role in the multiple modernities agenda. The article concludes with an assessment of the current status of the ‘global’ in theory and research.

This paper o ers an overview and theorization of digital glocalization that transcends past inter... more This paper o ers an overview and theorization of digital glocalization that transcends past interpretations concerning the e ects of ICT on techno-social relationships. It outlines a general theoretical framework that uses glocalization as a bridge between global and local. Digital glocalization might lead to the reconstruction of "place" using digital means or, alternatively, to newly found "third" spaces of glocal hybridity. This framework conforms to empirical evidence on how ICT reshapes the social world of the twenty-first century. Concrete manifestations of digital glocalization are reviewed in order to provide readers with suitable examples of its application in work and leisure environments. These range from internet governance to the entertainment industry. The growth and spread of ICT across the globe has the potential to lead to the construction or reconstruction of local places, whereby "placeness" can be created (or recreated); it can also create glocal hybrids that creatively combine online/o ine experiences, such as diverse forms of geomedia and augmented reality technologies.

Globalizations, 2020

ABSTRACT This discussion examines the disciplinary boundaries that affect the globalization debat... more ABSTRACT This discussion examines the disciplinary boundaries that affect the globalization debates that take place across different disciplinary subfields. I argue that the significance of globalization in these debates is due to its high-profile status in the public arena over the post-1989 era. Substantively, globalization is part of a new terminology articulated within the social sciences as a means of capturing the multitude of important shifts in the social world. Its interpretation cannot take place in isolation from related concepts. What is truly important though is the development of this new conceptual vocabulary, which encompasses cosmopolitanism, glocalization, hybridity, transnationalism and interculturalism. The globalization debates are an important venue for negotiating this new vocabulary and showcasing its importance for several fields of study. From this point of view, the significance of developing a single integrated theory of globalization is an issue of secondary importance.

Dialogues in Sociology, 2024

This article critically examines the challenges to the globalization paradigm observed throughout... more This article critically examines the challenges to the globalization paradigm observed throughout the world in the twenty-first century. While empirical evidence suggests that the policy-oriented globalization project of the 1990s has been superseded by different tendencies and policies, social-scientific scholarship in areas other than economics has not engaged with the notion of 'post-globalization'. The principal reason appears to be the employment of different conceptual lenses, whereby globalization appears as a long-term process largely unaffected by short-term shifts. The article interrogates the conceptual terrain of globalization scholarship, arguing that several important developments require the adjustment of theoretical lenses and a greater flexibility in the use of globalization as a master concept. In order to perform such a task, the article outlines a series of ideas that could facilitate the development of a perspective capable of addressing the question of how we should think about globalization in a post-globalization era.

Dialogues in Sociology, 2025

In this short commentary, the lead article's author offers his reflections on the response papers... more In this short commentary, the lead article's author offers his reflections on the response papers. These include an assessment of possible misunderstandings and/or departures from the lead article's main topic, as well as clarifications regarding the substantive argument. Next, the author addresses a series of remarks that address specific points in the response papers. Overall, this intellectual exchange is characterized by a bifurcation of perspectives between fellow travellers and critics of the globalization paradigm. Thus, the debate offers a snapshot of the current state of the art on globalization scholarship.

Youth and Globalization, 2019

Globalization brings forth a geographical and thematic expansion of the scope of youth studies be... more Globalization brings forth a geographical and thematic expansion of the scope of youth studies beyond the traditional topics of delinquency, studies of generations, and subculture. Youth has emerged as a topic for cosmopolitanism studies with a widespread tendency to use cosmopolitanism as a master narrative that leaves no conceptual room for considering 'non-cosmopolitan' on an equal footing. The article questions whether social research should be concerned with identifying the cosmopolitanism of youth or whether it should be concerned with examinations of the glocalization of world's youth (sub-)cultures. In the article's last section, I outline a research agenda that focuses upon the relationship between the world's youth (sub-)cultures, on the one hand, and glocalization and trans-localization, on the other. Use of these concepts offers important insights into the youth's cultural practices and is an alternative to the master narrative of cosmopolitanization.

Research in Urban Sociology, 2004

Globalization entails the increasing economic, political, military and social interrelations betw... more Globalization entails the increasing economic, political, military and social interrelations between societies. While much has been written on core countries' exports of their cultural products to the semi-peripheral and peripheral economies, this exportation of cultural products and populations also occurs from the semiperipheral to the core societies (see for example, Castells, 1998, 1996; Featherstone & Lash, 1999; Kennedy & Roudometof, 2002), thereby bringing immigrants and the host society into frequent contact. Research on immigrant incorporation into American society in many ways assumes away the history of the immigrants in their home society. Immigrants are in many ways seen as arriving carte blanche, erasing their home society's political, economic and social histories. As the case of Greek immigrants discussed in this chapter shows, this is clearly not the case. The Greek immigrants' home society politics and its history is an important component affecting the immigrants' acculturation into American society and their interpretation of uniquely American cultural constructions relating to race. In this chapter, we discuss Greek immigrants' incorporation of American racial ideologies into the racial repertoires they acquire in the home society. Greek Americans create a unique national/racial framework blending elements of both home and host society institutions and ideologies. Greek immigrants arrive in the United States with pre-existing national and racial identities and narratives about themselves and other groups. These have their sources in Greek national and political life of the past few centuries. In the U.S., Greek immigrants construct a new set of group narratives. This set is borne out of: (1) the complex interactions of the immigrants being citizens and members of two distinctive "imagined communities" (Anderson, 1991); (2) the interactions between Greece and the U.S. and their cultural and political markets; and (3) the immigrants' attempts to remain faithful to their motherland while maximizing their group interests in the U.S. These group narratives and identities occur through both formal and informal institutions. It is in this most current form of a "transnational cultural/political" space that Greek immigrants combine elements of home society political and national narratives along with American racial conceptualizations to create a "pot pouri" of group identities. METHODS The chapter relies on a variety of methods to trace the development of changing racial ideologies among Greeks. The methodologies used include: (1) historical secondary sources; (2) one hundred and ten interviews (of both immigrants and Greeks in Greece, with interviewees varying in age from 19 to 74); and (3

European Journal of Social Theory, 2016

This article presents three interpretations of glocalization in social-scientific literature as a... more This article presents three interpretations of glocalization in social-scientific literature as a means of reframing the terms of scholarly engagement with the concept. Although glocalization is relatively under-theorized, two key interpretations of the concept have been developed by Roland Robertson and George Ritzer. Through a critical and comparative overview, the article offers an assessment of the advances and weaknesses of each perspective. Both demonstrate awareness regarding the differences between globalization and glocalization, but this awareness is far from explicit. Both interpretations fail to draw a consistent analytical distinction between the two concepts and ultimately succumb to reductionism: either glocalization is subsumed under globalization or globalization is transformed into glocalization. Next, a third interpretation of glocalization as an analytically autonomous concept is presented. Working definitions of glocalization and of glocality as analytically autonomous from globalization and globality are developed and examples are offered. By addressing the key themes of power and temporality, this third interpretation transcends the limits of the other two interpretations.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 1998

In order to understand the Enlightenment's impact on Ottoman Balkan society, we must consider the... more In order to understand the Enlightenment's impact on Ottoman Balkan society, we must consider the relationship between class position and ethnicity. In the pre-1820s Ottoman Balkans, most of the urban strata, mercantile groups, and religious and secular elites were either ethnic Greeks or acculturated into the Greek ethnie. Both the peasantry and the literate and urban Greek-Orthodox groups were "Greek" in the sense of being Orthodox. Millenarianism and Orthodox universalism were both common among the Ottoman Orthodox Christians. After 1750, the influence of the Western Enlightenment led to secularization, liberalism, and an undermining of the religious world view of the Eastern Church. With the French Revolution, this trend intensified. Greek-Orthodox intellectuals reconceptualized the Orthodox Rum millet. They argued for a new, secular "Hellenic" national identity. Still, their visions of a future state included all Balkan Orthodox Christians.

Thesis Eleven, 2014

This article offers a reassessment of the relationship among nationalism, globalization and gloca... more This article offers a reassessment of the relationship among nationalism, globalization and glocalization. Conventionally, globalization is viewed as a historically recent challenge to the nation. It is argued that globalization, in contrast, is a long-term historical process. The emergence and perseverance of the nation is linked to outcomes of global processes, such as the experience of globality. Two conceptual links among the nation-form, historical globalization and cultural glocalization, are presented to demonstrate the salience of this perspective. First, globalization’s dialectic of homogeneity and heterogeneity influences the nation in a two-fold manner: whereas cultural and institutional isomorphism causes the homogenization of national symbols and institutions, cultural glocalization preserves the specificity of individual national identities. Second, transnational nationalism has played an important role in shaping the nation through the construction of various categori...

Chronos, 2019

In this discussion, I outline the transformation of Greek Orthodox identity in Cyprus during the ... more In this discussion, I outline the transformation of Greek Orthodox identity in Cyprus during the first 50 years of British rule over the island. The year 1931 marks the first Greek Cypriot anti-colonial revolt (Oktomvriana), and the post-1931 period constitutes the period in which the Greek Cypriot goal of union (enosis) with Greece is forcefully put forth in the political agenda. In the article's opening section, I outline the main institutional and political changes of the post-1878 period. In this era, ecclesiastical institutions underwent a major internal transformation as the religious hierarchy reasserted its authority in the face of new and threatening legislation enacted by the British. In pursuing this goal the church hierarchs became increasingly involved in the politics of Greek Cypriot nationalism. This involvement was expressed in a twofold manner: on the one hand, the hierarchs succeeded in legitimizing themselves as elected representatives of the Greek Cypriot com...

Global Media and Communication, Feb 24, 2023

The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communication... more The article explores the relationship between globalization and the information and communications technology (ICT) revolution. The impact of ICTs does not conform to the globalization paradigm’s suggestions. To address this issue, this article argues that glocalization and localization should be viewed as autonomous processes. Glocalization offers a means for the interpretation of the ICT revolution in techno-social relationships. It leads to the reconstruction of places through digital means or newfound third spaces of glocality. In the first instance, ICTs often lead to a reconstruction of local places, whereas in the second instance, ICTs lead to glocalities.

Diogène

La sociologie est née parallèlement à la modernisation occidentale ; ses principales positions hé... more La sociologie est née parallèlement à la modernisation occidentale ; ses principales positions héritées de l’ère classique portent sur la modernité et son impact sur les sociétés nationales. Après la décolonisation, la modernisation du « Tiers-Monde » a ouvert la voie à la notion de globalisation. La sociologie de la globalisation est une spécialité actuelle au sein des associations américaines et européennes de sociologie. La promesse d’une sociologie globale est à l’ordre du jour de l’Association internationale de sociologie depuis au moins 1990. À un niveau plus profond, la sociologie globale exige de ne pas penser le rôle de concepts fondamentaux tels que la modernité, la religion ou la société par rapport à leurs origines occidentales. Les études globales et la sociologie postcoloniale, deux des domaines de recherche les plus connus qui revendiquent une visée globale, sont examinées afin de déterminer si elles fournissent des ressources conceptuelles adéquates pour la sociologi...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024

This article critically examines the idea of global sociology in relationship to the discipline o... more This article critically examines the idea of global sociology in relationship to the discipline of Sociology. While the discipline initially emerged in Western societies, in the post-1945 era, the field extended its reach to the rest of the world. The intellectual project of global sociology emerged in the 1960s and has been on the agenda of the International Sociological Association since at least 1990. Delving deeper than the mere notion of a sociology that is applied to the world, global sociology requires the re-examination of the role of core sociological concepts and narratives, especially regarding the extent to which these reflect Eurocentric preoccupations. Global modernisation (alongside Global Studies) and Postcolonial Sociology, two of the most widely known research fields claiming global intent, are examined as to whether they provide meaningful blueprints for global sociology. Both offer promising insights but also suffer from important drawbacks. Instead of attempting to unearth new grand narratives that would displace the narrative of Western modernity, though, it might be possible to envision a plurality of such narratives coming from different regions of the globe. Sociology can thus be conceived not as exclusively global but also as local and glocal.

Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 2018

Sociological Forum , 1997

After the "end of the social" (Baudrillard, 1983), the death of "master narratives" (Lyotard, 198... more After the "end of the social" (Baudrillard, 1983), the death of "master narratives" (Lyotard, 1984), and the contentious "end of sociological theory" (Seidman, 1990), the need for new directions in the social sciences and in social theory is a topic central to the future of a number of disciplines (including sociology). This rethinking of social scientific inquiry reflects the shifting nature of global political and cultural affairs-including postcolonialism, the trend toward European unification, and the more recent collapse of the Soviet bloc. Within sociology as a discipline, conceptual reorientation is closely related to American sociology's perceived intellectual crisis (Goulder, 1970). This "crisis" is related to the collapse of the functionalist paradigm in the 1960s and the lack of a shared intellectual orientation. Over the last two decades, various theorists (Alexander, Giddens) have attempted the reunification of sociology but with limited success. Others, however, have sought to rethink the very foundations of sociological knowledge. Giddens, Wallerstein, and Robertson are among those few who have sought to outline a new terrain of the social sciences in the 21st century. Their efforts reflect a growing awareness of the need for serious engage

Mediterranean Quarterly , 2007

Nationalities Papers

Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Mo... more Religion and Politics in the Orthodox World: The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Challenges of Modernity, by Paschalis M. Kitromilides, foreword by the Metropolitan of Pergamon, London, Routledge, 2019, 129 pages, $170.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0815394648 One of the most important scholars of Orthodox Christianity in Southeastern Europe, the author, although a political scientist by training, is noted for his willingness to engage with primary sources. This book contains a series of essays that examine the historical trajectory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate since the 18th century. Some of the material is also available in the two survey volumes (2010, 2014) edited by Lucian Leustean (whose last name is misspelled in the book). The book collects these essays into a coherent whole. In the volume's introduction, the author offers a highly critical account of past scholarship marked by a sometimes unduly harsh tone. The author's numerous works have analyzed the impact of the Enlightenment upon the ecclesiastical institutions of the Ottoman Empire, and in this book attention focuses on the historical trajectory of the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the 19th and 20th centuries. His interpretation is confined to standard institutional history, whereby history is the deeds of "great men" (as the high clergy are all males), with very little emphasis placed on class, status, and/or gender. The author's point of view is largely identical to that of the "great men" he studies, and no effort is made to place the institution within the context of the broader Orthodox religious landscape (which extends far beyond southeastern Europe). That leads the author to an almost hagiographic assessment of the institution's leadership, which is praised time and again for its efforts to preserve and maintain the Patriarchate against all odds. In the author's narrative, the Patriarchate is an actor undermined by the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire. Kitromilides's greatest scholarly accomplishment might be his successful rebuttal of the mistaken impression of the previous generation of regional scholars that the Patriarchate represented an agent of Greek nationalism. In contrast, he has shown that the high clergy's attitudes were shaped by the sincere effort to maintain Orthodoxy's traditions (which included the use of the Greek language). But the broader issue also necessitates a deeper analysis of the complex interplay among language, status, class, and ethnicity in the Ottoman Balkans. The author's interpretation has helped historians revamp traditional historiographies and articulate a better understanding of the broader sociocultural context that shaped the rise of nationalism in the region. For the author, nationalism is part of a secular modernity (45) that undermines the Church-a position practically derived from the attitude of the high clergy, who are his privileged interlocutors. In his interpretation, the redeployment of Orthodoxy (Roudometof 2001) for the purposes of nationbuilding is a betrayal of the Orthodox Tradition, instead of a creative re-making of tradition within the modern world of nation-states. It is instructive that Kitromilides (39) sees the emergence of national churches as "the consequence of the subjection of the churches by individual states" in the region, with the church's leadership "passed into the hands [of]a hierarchy effectively socialized into the new national cultures … [who] collaborated with this project." But the intertwining of Christianity and state goes as far back as the Roman Empire; Kitromilides's criticism is reserved for local nation-states but not for Holy Russia or the Ottoman Empire, two divinely ordained monarchies that also entailed specific configurations of church-state relations. To be fair, the author acknowledges the broader issue of the "cultural change" (26) caused by nationalism in southeastern Europe but frames the issue in terms of the Church's "subjection to the secular state"

Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism. By Shaul Kelner. New York: New York University Press, 2010. Pp. 304. $35.00

American Journal of Sociology, 2010

... My thanks go to Harvey Goldberg, Ezra Kopelowitz, Dan Rabinowitz, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, and ... more ... My thanks go to Harvey Goldberg, Ezra Kopelowitz, Dan Rabinowitz, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, and my other colleagues at TAU and in the ... Sarah Bunin Benor served as consultant on linguistic issues, Saul Strosberg on Has-sidic music, and textile artist Rachel Kanter on matters ...

Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2004

This book is as much about the environment as it is about politics, economics, families, or socia... more This book is as much about the environment as it is about politics, economics, families, or social theory. Therefore, it is exceedingly difficult to fit into one single category. Brennan's main public policy recommendation comes in the form of a prime directive for humanity:“[ ...

International Sociology, 2013

Geographies of Rhythms does what it sets out to do. It extends Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis by... more Geographies of Rhythms does what it sets out to do. It extends Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis by showing how geographies have rhythm. By providing examples from around the world and in diverse contexts (e.g. commuting, cycling, dancing), the contributors provide convincing arguments that time and space should be considered together through rhythmanalysis. The book’s audience extends well beyond geographers. Other social scientists may be interested in delving into how rhythmanalysis is socially constructed in diverse locales. Urban planners would also be interested for perhaps more pragmatic reasons, involving understanding how time and places have rhythm that affects development.

International Sociology, 2011

This volume applies the problematic of cultural sociology to the debate on democratic politics. A... more This volume applies the problematic of cultural sociology to the debate on democratic politics. As Isaac Reed states, the objective is to explore the link between sociological explanation and social critique ‘in the context of [a] social theory strongly committed to democracy and the progressive Left’ (p. 1). In some of the chapters this link is more evident while in others it is less immediate. But most of them offer fascinating discussions of cultural sociology. Individual contributions vary in length, from Zerubavel’s eight-page insightful analysis of conspiracy theories to Nina Eliasoph’s penetrating critique of the limits of the classical Leftist politics of denunciation. As a whole, the volume illustrates a distinct approach to the intertwining of politics and culture. Offering a culture-based account in combination with an explicitly progressive orientation leads to new conceptual territories. In so doing, it challenges the sociological community to reconsider taken-for-granted relationships and associations. A case in point is Ronald Jacobs’ chapter on the value of the culture industry. His critical reappraisal of that industry’s conventional image suggests that past criticisms might no longer be applicable. In conclusion, this volume makes a valuable contribution to the study of the relationship between culture and the democratic Left.

International Sociology, 2007

In this revised edition of his original 1997 work, Gerard Delanty sets out to describe the concep... more In this revised edition of his original 1997 work, Gerard Delanty sets out to describe the conceptual evolution of the main currents of the philosophy of the social sciences over the last two centuries. Most of the chapters in the original text have been revised, one has ...

Journal of Contemporary History, 2012

Studies on Modern Greek Society and Politics (review)

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2002

ABSTRACT

Nations and Nationalism, 2005

... Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http... more ... Alarcon 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http ... The third and fourth chapters expand on the logic and intellectual heritage of the four ... Since the early or mid-nineteenth century, Eastern Europe has undergone a slow process of ...

South European Society and Politics, 1999

The sound and the fury of the 1991 declaration of independence by the former Yugoslav Republic of... more The sound and the fury of the 1991 declaration of independence by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is gradually finding its expression in the social scientific literature on the topic. The 1991-95 (and to a lesser degree still ongoing) diplomatic battle ...

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2010

The Fountain of Health (FoH) initiative offers valuable evidence-based mental health knowledge an... more The Fountain of Health (FoH) initiative offers valuable evidence-based mental health knowledge and provides clinicians with evaluated tools for translating knowledge into practice, in order to reduce seniors' risks of mental disorders, including dementia. A presentation on mental health promotion and educational materials were disseminated to mental health clinicians including physicians and other allied health professionals either in-person or via tele-education through a provincial seniors' mental health network. Measures included: 1) a tele-education quality evaluation form, 2) a knowledge transfer questionnaire, 3) a knowledge translation-to-practice evaluation tool, and 4) a quality assurance questionnaire. A total of 74 mental health clinicians received the FoH education session. There was a highly significant (p < .0001) difference in clinicians' knowledge transfer questionnaire scores pre-and post-educational session. At a two-month follow-up, 19 (25.7%) participants completed a quality assurance questionnaire, with all 19 (100%) of respondents stating they would positively recommend the FoH information to colleagues and patients. Eleven (20.4%) translation-to-practice forms were also collected at this interval, tracking clinician use of the educational materials. The use of a formalized network for knowledge transfer allows for education and evaluation of health-care practitioners in both acquisition of practical knowledge and subsequent clinical behavior change.

Journal of World-Systems Research, 2003

Slavic Review, 2018

This volume is based on a 2011 conference held at Ohio State University. Nearly all the chapters ... more This volume is based on a 2011 conference held at Ohio State University. Nearly all the chapters address issues that pertain to the former Yugoslavia or its successor states (Bosnia, FYR Macedonia) and/or Bulgaria. Overall, the volume is a good representation of western liberal mainstream scholarship about these countries. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part consists of six chapters that discuss several issues of historical scholarship, while the second part consists of five chapters that focus on contemporary issues. Some chapters are better than others, and for edited volumes that is a judgment often dictated by the reader's topic of interest. Still, the thematic coverage is, for the most part, limited to just a portion of the countries typically subsumed under the rubric of the Balkans or southeastern Europe. Given the volume's focus on South Slavic nations, the editors' failure to cover the rest of the region's countries in sufficient depth might not be a serious concern for this journal's audience. Irrespectively, the majority of the chapters are well-written and the authors are knowledgeable about their topics. As the introductory chapter makes clear, the range of topics is restricted to what the authors and editors deem as outsider or marginal perspectives. These topics include: an analysis of demographic trends concerning the consolidation of Muslim communities in the Ottoman era, the different ways the Ottoman legacy influenced nation-making, images of the nation in official classifications or the popular press, the role of cultural artifacts and intellectuals in the communist and post-communist eras, the relationship between gender and authority structures, and a really interesting chapter on the recent rise of extreme-right Bulgarian nationalists (or populists). Given space restrictions, it is not possible to review in length the specifics of each chapter. Instead, my remarks focus on the volume as a whole. Most chapters rely mainly upon US-based Area Studies experts and that in turn leads to a nearly uncritical duplication of the field's widely known "knowledge base." Area Studies is well-known, however, for its US foreign policy-oriented biases. This orientation is acutely reflected throughout the volume. For example, in his chapter, Ipek K. Yosmanoglu notes that L.S. Stavrianos' classic study The Balkans Since 1453, originally published in 1958, reappeared unrevised in a new edition in 2000 (57-58). The point is well-taken but only highlights the limits of the shared conceptual universe that manifests itself throughout the volume's pages. The list of historians who have made significant contributions includes Charles and Barbara Jelavich, Mark Mazower, Georges Castellan, Traian Stoianovich, and Richard Clogg. In addition, there are also social scientists (anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and others) too numerous to even attempt a partial enumeration here. Given the volume's title, my initial impression was that this collection of essays would feature the historians' engagement with alternative conceptions of the nation in the region. I offered a birds' eye view of such conceptions in my book Nationalism, Globalization and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans (2001). I was hopeful that historical research could offer additional archival material or fresh interpretations, but my expectations were misplaced. Instead of exploring the actual historical alternatives to the modern nations in the region, most of

Journal of Contemporary Religion, 2014

the importance of affective feelings in the analysis of music and religion. Further, some of her ... more the importance of affective feelings in the analysis of music and religion. Further, some of her criticism about ‘religion’ as a field of study and the changing nature of ‘religious’ behaviour has significant force behind it, as has her helpful consideration of how notions of scapegoating can apply to Hip-Hop culture. And she is surely right to stress the importance of the body and embodiment in this discussion. However, some questions remain, not least if language is a key constituent of the social construction of various forms of ‘religion’—can meaning and meaning-making environments be so conveniently separated, as Miller seems to suggest? And despite the problems surrounding the term ‘religion’ and its socially constructed nature (with all its preand post-Enlightenment baggage), is ‘religion’ the second-order cultural creation that Miller proposes or is it—along with music—much more fundamental to the evolution of human culture than she allows for in this study?

Contemporary Sociology, 2021

Mediterranean Quarterly , 2018

Orthodox Christian Perspectives on War, edited by Perry T. Hamalis and Valerie A. Karras

Consumption, Markets & Culture, 2018

Originally published in French, the book is based on an in-depth quantitative and qualitative stu... more Originally published in French, the book is based on an in-depth quantitative and qualitative study of French youth with regard to their choices of aesthetic and cultural repertoires. Additionally, the book is situated within the voluminous interdisciplinary debate on cosmopolitanism (for useful overviews, see Delanty, 2018; Skrbis and Woodward, 2013). This debate concerns the extent to which cosmopolitanism emerges out of globalization as an observable attribute and not merely an ideal; and
whether the social sciences should be developed from within the normative premises of cosmopolitanism. The book adds new empirical evidence highly relevant to interpretations and arguments about cosmopolitanism. The text is supplemented by nearly 100 pages of appendices, some very informative tables and graphs. Throughout the book, the authors offer a meticulous and detailed presentation of information about their survey that echoes Bourdieu’s (1984) work. Their introduction brilliantly situates the book within France’s broader cultural universe, where the empirical exploration of globalization’s impact has been a relatively under-developed topic. The text is basically written for the French audience and the authors discuss at length definitional and conceptual issues that the English-speaking scholarly audience might already be familiar with. Still, it is a useful and even recommended book for Anglophone graduate-level social science seminars on cosmopolitanism.

European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2016

As Victor Roudometof immediately points out, glocalisation is an undertheorised concept: strictly... more As Victor Roudometof immediately points out, glocalisation is an undertheorised concept: strictly speaking, there is no theory or school of theories on glocalisation, as such, in the literature. This is quite amazing, particularly given the popularity of the term and its large diffusion in different social, economic, and political spheres, as well as in academic discourse. Surprisingly, to date there is no book in circulation that specifically discusses this concept. Consequently, Glocalization: A critical introduction is a welcome novelty, which fills this gap. However, while there is no attempt to distinctly theorise glocalisation on its own terms, this does not mean that there are no relevant interpretations, whereby theorists have sought to creatively engage with it. Nevertheless, what is needed (and where the author greatly succeeds) is to add glocalisation to the social-scientific vocabulary, as an analytically autonomous concept, and not as a mere appendage to globalisation, cosmopolitanisation, or theories of global diffusion. One of the main strengths of Glocalization: A critical introduction is that it explores and clarifies the varied literature circulating around the term 'glocalisation', which has many different and contrasting, and (sometimes even) conflicting concepts or meanings. As a matter of fact, the author states that the trilogy of global, local, and glocal are in need of unambiguous sound definitions from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Roudometof's book is structured into two parts. The first is devoted to a history and critical assessment of the theoretical use of the term, glocalisation. It then offers an alternative perspective and a clear, effective, and applicable definition, explaining the limitations of the term globalisation and the value of defining glocalisation. The second part of the book illustrates how the concept of glocalisation can be used to broaden our understanding and analysis of a wide range of issues in world politics, including the twenty-first-century culture of consumption, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and religious traditions. Roudometof usefully clarifies the different interpretations of the term 'glocalisation' and its development. In particular, he devotes special attention to the three authors who, more than any others, have devoted deep reflection on processes of glocalisation: Roland Robertson, George Ritzer, and Ulrich Beck. Robertson (1992) was the first person who introduced the concept of 'glocalisation' into social and scientific discourse. From that moment, he refined the idea in order to respond to those who criticised him (e.g. Radhakrishnan, 2010; Ritzer, 2003). While accepting some of their criticism, in his monist perspective, Robertson (2013) states that today, only the glocal exists (we are neither global nor local any more). The glocal is the outcome of the historically long struggle between the

ISA e-symposium for Sociology, 2017

The popularisation of globalisation at the turn of the 20 th century and the first decades of the... more The popularisation of globalisation at the turn of the 20 th century and the first decades of the 21 st century has been extensively shaped by the 1989 collapse of communism. The article examines the rise and fall of the discourse on globalisation as a topic directly linked to the post-communist New World Order. It argues that globalisation is a notion far broader than the 'globalisation project' of economic neo-liberalism. The institutionalisation of Global, Transnational and Cosmopolitan Studies reflects this understanding. Scholarship needs to move beyond the globalisation project and develop far more nuanced interpretations. It suggests that one such interpretation involves the notion of glocalisation, which represents an understanding of the contemporary form of hybridity, thus helping the social sciences to make sense of 21 st century social complexity.

Cyprus: a deeply religious society

EVS Trend File 1981-2017

Die European Values Study ist ein groß angelegtes, länderübergreifendes und längsschnittliches Um... more Die European Values Study ist ein groß angelegtes, länderübergreifendes und längsschnittliches Umfrageforschungsprogramm darüber, wie die Europäer über Familie, Arbeit, Religion, Politik und Gesellschaft denken. Die Umfrage wird alle neun Jahre in einer wachsenden Anzahl von Ländern wiederholt und gibt Einblicke in die Ideen, Überzeugungen, Präferenzen, Einstellungen, Werte und Meinungen der Bürger in ganz Europa. Das EVS Trend File 1981-2017 wird aus den fünf EVS-Wellen erstellt und deckt fast 40 Jahre ab. In insgesamt 159 Umfragen wurden mehr als 223.000 Befragte aus 48 Ländern/Regionen befragt. Es basiert auf den aktualisierten Daten des EVS Longitudinal Data File 1981-2008 (v.3.1.0) und dem aktuellen EVS 2017 Integrated Dataset (v.4.0.0). Sie folgt einem neuen, mit der WVS abgestimmten Konzept, die großen EVS- und WVS-Längsschnitt-Datensätze, die fast alle Variablen der EVS- bzw. WVS-Wellen enthalten, in schlankere und einfacher zu handhabende Dateien zu übertragen. Die Pre-Rele...

To Thematic Group Members, Colleagues, Friends, and interested parties

This is the first annual newsletter of the Thematic Group # 02 on Historical and Comparative Soci... more This is the first annual newsletter of the Thematic Group # 02 on Historical and Comparative Sociology. This newsletter will promote our activities & will also provide a forum to publicize our field. Standard features might include: 1. Short articles, comments or reflections on historical sociology 2. Your news regarding article and/or book publications, awards, or other professional accomplishments. Post-doctoral appointees, doctoral candidates and graduate students are encouraged to join our section & submit samples of their work. Brief descriptions of dissertation topics will also be included. 3. Opportunities and initiatives, including calls for papers, funding opportunities and calls, conference news, etc. 4. TG02 business information and related items from our Board and officers. Please send all submissions to Victor Roudometof at

European Values Study 2008: Integrated Dataset (EVS 2008)

Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.The extended ... more Two online overviews offer comprehensive metadata on the EVS datasets and variables.The extended study description for the EVS 2008 provides country-specificinformation on the origin and outcomes of the national surveys The variable overview of the four EVS waves 1981 1990 1999/2000 and 2008 allows for identifying country specific deviations in the question wording within and across the EVS waves.These overviews can be found at:Extended Study DescriptionVariable Overview Moral religious societal political work and family values ofEuropeans.Topics: 1 Perceptions of life: importance of work family friendsand acquaintances leisure time politics and religion frequency ofpolitical discussions with friends happiness self-assessment of ownhealth memberships and unpaid work (volunteering in: social welfareservices religious or church organisations education or culturalactivities labour unions political parties local political actions,human rights environmental or peace movement professionalassociations youth work sports clubs women´s groups voluntaryassociations concerned with health or other groups tolerance towardsminorities (people with a criminal record of a different race,left/right wing extremists alcohol addicts large families,emotionally unstable people Muslims immigrants AIDS sufferers drugaddicts homosexuals Jews gypsies and Christians - social distance);trust in people; estimation of people´s fair and helpful behaviour;internal or external control satisfaction with life.2 Work: reasons for people to live in need importance of selectedaspects of occupational work employment status general worksatisfaction freedom of decision-taking in the job importance of work(work ethics scale important aspects of leisure time attitudetowards following instructions at work without criticism (obediencework give priority to nationals over foreigners as well as men overwomen in jobs.3 Religion: Individual or general clear guidelines for good and evil;religious denomination current and former religious denomination;current freque [...]

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Contemporary Sociology, 2002

Cultural diasporas...... are no longer confined to the rich. In dress, in religious or political ... more Cultural diasporas...... are no longer confined to the rich. In dress, in religious or political orientation, in music, people in the poorest ghettos link themselves to transnational 'communities of taste' in an active way (Giddens, 1994: 188). ... This paper tries to extend the frontiers ...

In Glocalization: A Critical Introduction, author Victor Roudometof offers an elaborate analysis ... more In Glocalization: A Critical Introduction, author Victor Roudometof offers an elaborate analysis of this relatively new construct while drawing from a diverse body of literature from different scientific fields. The current review is intended for readers with a primary background in media and cultural studies who maintain an interest in the evolution of the globalization phenomenon and the current turn toward hybrid, mediated, and local exchanges of symbols. In this context, the work of Roudometof addresses significant current changes while providing a thorough analysis of mediated global and local interactions.

Επιστήμη και Κοινωνια , 2011

Η τουρκική εισβολή στην Κύπρο το 1974 ερμηνεόθηκε διαφορετικά από τις δύο κοινότητες του νησιού. ... more Η τουρκική εισβολή στην Κύπρο το 1974 ερμηνεόθηκε διαφορετικά από τις δύο κοινότητες του νησιού. Σε αντίθεση με τους Τουρκοκυπρίους, στην ελληνοκυπριακή κοινότητα η εισβολή χαρακτηρίστηκε πολιτισμικό τραύμα και άφησε βαθιά αχνάρια στη μνήμη, στην κοινωνία και στην πολιτική. Η τραυματική εμπειρία ορίστηκε από τα συναισθήματα του πόνου, της πίκρας και του ξεριζωμού και από την επιθυμία της επιστροφής στις πατρογονι- κές εστίες. Ακόμη και σήμερα, τα στοιχεία αυτά χαρακτηρίζουν την κυπριακή καθημερινότητα και αναπαράγονται μέσω της κυβερνητικής πολιτικής, του εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος και των δράσεων της κοινωνίας των πολιτών. Το 1974 αποτέλεσε ένα ερμηνευτικό σχήμα για τη συναισθηματική κατανόηση της μετατροπής της Κύπρου από αγροτική σε αστική κοινωνία μέσα σε διάστημα λίγων δεκαετιών. Η μεταφορά του τραύματος στις μετά το 1974 γενιές ενισχύει την τραυματική αίσθηση και την ανάγκη να επιδιωχθεί η μελλοντική ανάτασή του. Μέσα από αυτά τα δεδομένα εξετάζονται και οι προοπτικές δημιουργίας μιας μετα-τραυματικής αφήγησης.

Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2007

Réseaux, 2021

This submission presents an overview of the key interpretations of glocalization in English-langu... more This submission presents an overview of the key interpretations of glocalization in English-language literature. To the best of the author’s knowledge, no systematic presentation of these interpretations has appeared in French. The methods employed are interpretation and exegesis of key texts of various theorists. Academic discourse on glocalization has been subject to interpretations from diverse fields and research programs. The submission offers an overview of six distinct readings of glocalization. First, the geographical perspective views glocalization as an intermediary level of analysis. In most analyses, the glocal is a layer in a nested spatial hierarchy of levels from local to global. However, this criticism does not apply to phenomenological perspectives that refer to social or relative space. Second, in Robertson’s theory of cultural globalization, glocalization involves the fusion of local and global into a new whole or “third” level. Third, in Ritzer’s approach (or “grobalization” theory), glocalization is seen as a form that capitalism assumes in order to incorporate cultural variation. The glocal is “really” part of the global. Fourth, from within the world society or world polity perspective, glocalization is seen as equivalent to the process of “theorization” (as that process is defined by world society theorists). It offers the means through which it becomes possible to “translate” concepts and practices onto distinct cultural contexts. Fifth, in Beck’s cosmopolitanization theory, glocalization is also implicitly present in several of the processes that constitute cosmopolitanization as such. Hence, the notion of glocalization has a distinct affinity to Beck’s notion of cosmopolitanization. However, Beck’s theory often intertwines normative aspects of cosmopolitan philosophy with sociological description and tends to refer to cultural glocalization as deformed or “banal cosmopolitanism”. Lastly, in Roudometof’s interpretation, glocalization is seen as analytically distinct from globalization. Glocalization involves the process of refracting global waves through the local, whereby new glocalities are constructed. In the course of the presentation the advantages and shortcomings of different readings of glocalization are briefly assessed.

Discussion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Glocalization

Religions, Sep 29, 2018

This introductory article offers an overview of the volume's major problematic. It examines the l... more This introductory article offers an overview of the volume's major problematic. It examines the literature on religion and globalization and then moves on to an overview of the literature on religion and glocalization. Throughout the discussion, the article refers explicitly to the volume's chapters and outlines how their specific themes fit within the broader problematic of glocal religions.

Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 2019

The Orthodox Church of Cyprus is a well-suited case, albeit insufficiently studied, that helps to... more The Orthodox Church of Cyprus is a well-suited case, albeit insufficiently studied, that helps to shed light
onto the hitherto under-explored relationship between Orthodox Christianity and economic life. The discussion begins with a brief primer on the historical evolution of the Church of Cyprus in order to explain why and how, unlike other Orthodox Churches, it has maintained an active role in economic matters. It argues that this has come about mainly as a result of the secularism
imposed under British colonial rule. Then, the article offers a brief sketch of the post-1960 economic activities of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus and
next it assesses the impact of the 2008 and 2013 crises upon the church’s economic activities.

Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας, 2015

Το κείμενο αυτό αναφέρεταχ σε μια λίγο γνωστή και εξίσου λίγο επεξεργασμένη στην Ελλάδα θεωρητική... more Το κείμενο αυτό αναφέρεταχ σε μια λίγο γνωστή και εξίσου λίγο επεξεργασμένη στην Ελλάδα θεωρητική έννοια: το πολιτισμικό τραύμα. Παρότι ως όρος το ‘τραύμα’ χρησιμοποιείται συχνότατα στον δημόσιο λόγο με αφορμή ποικίλες ατομικές και συλλογικές δεινοπάθειες του παρόντος και του παρελθόντος, τόσο στην ημεδαπή όσο και την αλλοδαπή, σπανίως καθίσταται σαφές τι ακριβώς εννοείται και ποια δυναμική περιγράφει. Η έννοια του πολιτισμικού τραύματος αναδύθηκε στο πλαίσιο του ‘ισχυρού προγράμματος’ της πολιτισμικής κοινωνιολογίας του Jeffrey Alexander. Βασικές συνιστώσες της είναι η ‘ταυτότητα’, το (αρνητικό) ‘συναίσθημα’και η ‘μνήμη’. Στο άρθρο γίνεται μεταξύ άλλων αναλυτική σύγκριση ατομικού-κλινικού και συλλογικού-πολιτισμικού τραύματος και καταδεικνύονται οι συνάφειες ανάμεσα στις πολιτισμικές σπουδές, τις σπουδές συλλογικής μνήμης καθώς και την κοινωνιολογία και ψυχολογία των συγκινήσεων.

Social Compass, 2009

Depuis la proclamation de la République de Chypre en 1960 et sa division en deux parties—grecque ... more Depuis la proclamation de la République de Chypre en 1960 et sa division en deux parties—grecque et turque—en 1974, la société chypriote grecque s'est fortement urbanisée sous l'effet d'une intense modernisation. Les auteurs s'emploient à reconstituer les grandes étapes liées au développement des structures organisationnelles de l'Église orthodoxe de Chypre (EOC). Dans les années soixante, et surtout après le décès de l'évêque Makarios III (en 1977), le principe chypriote d'ethnarchie sera définitivement abandonné. Contrastant avec cette conception de la gouvernance assurée par une seule personne, les développements structurels de l'Église vont l'acheminer vers un système d'organisation synodal. Depuis les années soixante, cette modernisation a accentué, au sein de la société chypriote, un clivage entre conservateurs religieux et laïcs.

Social Compass, 2009

À Chypre, le colonialisme britannique a profondément influencé les relations entre l'Église e... more À Chypre, le colonialisme britannique a profondément influencé les relations entre l'Église et l'État. Lors de la période précédente, sous domination ottomane, les membres du haut clergé remplissaient des obligations administratives et politiques, conjuguant ainsi fonctions religieuses et administratives laïques. À partir de 1856, ils obtinrent même davantage de reconnaissance pour leur fonction politique. Pourtant, dès 1878, l'administration britannique considéra l'Église et l'État comme des organes séparés. Cette perspective entraîna inéluctablement une perte d'autorité politique des membres du clergé. Les autorités britanniques refusèrent la reconnaissance du régime traditionnel de l'Église, qui lui accordait des propriétés et privilèges fonciers, ainsi que la jouissance d'une partie de l'impôt. Les auteurs retracent les implications à long terme de cette redéfinition des frontières entre Église et État au sein de l'Église chypriote. Suite ...

Glocalization is a growing area of research within the social sciences and humanities, yet its ap... more Glocalization is a growing area of research within the social sciences and humanities, yet its application to archaeology remains relatively overlooked. Acknowledging that this concept is worth examining in greater detail, we aimed to facilitate an interdisciplinary dialogue exploring its relative merits for archaeological research and practice. Given the origins of glocal theory within sociology, and its broad application across the social sciences and humanities more generally, scholars from diverse fields were invited to discuss its applicability to archaeology and heritage.status: publishe

Réseaux, 2021

En partant d’une absence relative de travaux en langue française sur la globalisation de la cul... more En partant d’une absence relative de travaux en langue française sur la globalisation de la culture, ce numéro double de Réseaux contribue à combler cette lacune, en se foca¬lisant principalement sur la circulation des produits culturels. Sans pouvoir prétendre à une impossible exhaustivité, ce numéro ambitionne à la fois de familiariser le lecteur francophone avec les concepts les plus saillants de ce domaine et de rassembler, pour la première fois, des travaux francophones, menés dans des champs disciplinaires divers. Si l’on ne peut certes pas parler d’effervescence de la recherche francophone sur le sujet, le nombre élevé de propositions reçues par le comité de rédaction (une cinquantaine) témoigne d’une vitalité que ce numéro souhaite encourager à poursuivre.

Chacun à leur manière, ces articles mettent en lumière les multiples facettes de la globalisation de la culture, à partir de la circulation des produits cultu¬rels, et ouvrent de nouvelles pistes pour des questionnements tant méthodolo¬giques qu’épistémologiques ou théoriques, sur la base d’enquêtes empiriques. Bien sûr, ce numéro n’épuise en rien un sujet dont la période actuelle nous montre l’importance, y compris avec la pandémie de la Covid-19 qui a vu la croissance exponentielle de la circulation des produits culturels sur les plate¬formes globales, mais il voudrait augurer d’une plus grande focalisation des sciences sociales dans l’espace francophone sur ces thématiques

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, 2015

This entry offers a brief overview of the different uses of the ethnonym "Greeks" in varied histo... more This entry offers a brief overview of the different uses of the ethnonym "Greeks" in varied historical periods.

Nations and Nationalisms: A Global Historical Overview , 2008

The conventional wisdom among the scholarly community is that nations and nationalism are forces ... more The conventional wisdom among the scholarly community is that nations and nationalism are forces closely tied with our heritage, culture, ethnicity, and the legacy of our forefathers. Of course, scholars of nationalism still discuss whether nations are solely a force coming out from our distant past or whether they are in large part a product of 19th-century modernization. Some

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2012

Encyclopedia of Global Studies, Oct 5, 2012

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019

Conventional views assume a systematic intertwining between the Orthodox Church and the state, wh... more Conventional views assume a systematic intertwining between the Orthodox Church and
the state, which makes Orthodox countries culturally hostile to modernity. These views
have been shaped by a long history of antagonistic relationships between Western and
Eastern European states and fail to grasp important long-term trends within the Orthodox
religious landscape. The political culture in Orthodox countries has undergone several
changes across the centuries. Under the East Roman (Byzantine) Empire,
complementarity provided the blueprint for church-state relations. In later centuries, this
model was modified to suit the Ottoman and Russian empires. Modernization also
prompted Orthodox states to create state churches. Church-state separation was further
pursued by communist and colonial regimes and was sometimes accompanied by the
active persecution of clergy and the faithful. The political culture of modern Orthodox
countries was decisively shaped by the nationalization of the faith, spurred by various
national revivals. In the 19th century, Orthodox Christianity became a nationalizedreligion, whereby strong associations were established between newly constructed
churches in Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania and these countries’ respective
nations. This version of Orthodoxy was exported into the New World through
communities of East European immigrants. The communist takeover of Eastern Europe
further strengthened administrative fragmentation. After 1989–1990, the fragmentation
of the USSR allowed for a more open expression of the model of national religion.
Orthodoxy was revitalized but also served as a cornerstone for Russian, Ukrainian, and
Estonian national identities, leading to regional ecclesiastical disputes. Current
institutional dilemmas have resulted from these long-term processes.