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Innovation in the Orthodox Christian Tradition? The Question of Change in Greek Orthodox Thought and Practice Edited by Trine Stauning Willert and Lina Molokotos-Liederman InnovatIon In the orthodox ChrIstIan tradItIon? This page has been left blank intentionally Innovation in the orthodox Christian tradition? the Question of Change in Greek orthodox thought and Practice Edited by trIne staunInG WIllert University of Copenhagen, Denmark lIna Molokotos-lIederMan Independent scholar, London, UK © trine stauning Willert and lina Molokotos-liederman 2012 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. trine stauning Willert and lina Molokotos-liederman have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. Published by ashgate Publishing limited ashgate Publishing Company Wey Court east suite 420 union road 101 Cherry street Farnham Burlington surrey, Gu9 7Pt vt 05401-4405 england usa www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Innovation in the orthodox Christian tradition? : the question of change in Greek orthodox thought and practice. 1. orthodoxos ekklesia tes hellados--history. 2. orthodoxos ekklesia tes hellados--doctrines. 3. Church renewal--orthodox eastern Church. I. Willert, trine stauning. II. Molokotos-liederman, lina. 281.9'495-dc23 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Innovation in the orthodox Christian tradition? : the question of change in Greek orthodox thought and practice / edited by trine stauning Willert and lina Molokotos-liederman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. IsBn 978-1-4094-2077-4 (hardcover) -- IsBn 978-1-4094-2078-1 (ebook) 1. ortho- doxos ekklesia tes hellados--history. 2. orthodox eastern Church--Greece--history. 3. Change--religious aspects--orthodoxos ekklesia tes hellados. 4. orthodox eastern Church--history. I. Willert, trine stauning. II. Molokotos-liederman, lina. Bx613.I56 2012 281.9'495--dc23 IsBn 9781409420774 (hbk) IsBn 9781409420781 (ebk) IV Printed and bound in Great Britain by the MPG Books Group, uk. Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors ix Preface xiii ConCePtuaL overview 1 How Can We Speak of Innovation in the Greek Orthodox Tradition? Towards a Typology of Innovation in Religion 3 Trine Stauning Willert and Lina Molokotos-Liederman 2 Orthodox Christianity, Change, Innovation: Contradictions in Terms? 19 Vasilios N. Makrides enCounters with other Christian Denominations 3 Double-Identity Churches on the Greek Islands under the Venetians: Orthodox and Catholics Sharing Churches (Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) 53 Eftichia Arvaniti 4 Religious Innovation or Political Strategy? The Rapprochements of the Archbishop of Syros, Alexandros Lykourgos (1827–1875), towards the Anglican Church 73 Elisabeth Kontogiorgi aDaPtations to moDernity 5 Emancipation through Celibacy? The Sisterhoods of the Zoe Movement and their Role in the Development of ‘Christian Feminism’ in Greece 1938–1960 101 Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou vi Innovation in the Orthodox Christian Tradition? 6 The New Sound of the Spiritual Modern: The Revival of Greek Orthodox Chant 123 Tore Tvarnø Lind reform anD Power struggLe in reLigious governanCe 7 Holy Canons or General Regulations? The Ecumenical Patriarchate vis-à-vis the Challenge of Secularization in the Nineteenth Century 143 Dimitris Stamatopoulos 8 An Innovative Local Orthodox Model of Governance? The Shrine of Evangelistria on the Island of Tinos 163 Katerina Seraïdari Change in ContemPorary soCio-PoLitiCaL Contexts 9 A New Role for Religion in Greece? Theologians Challenging the Ethno-Religious Understanding of Orthodoxy and Greekness 183 Trine Stauning Willert 10 From Mobilization to a Controlled Compromise: The Shift of Ecclesiastical Strategy under Archbishop Hieronymus 207 Konstantinos Papastathis BeyonD nationaL BorDers: the greek orthoDox DiasPora 11 Innovation within Greek Orthodox Theology in Australia: Archbishop Stylianos and the Mystique of Indigenous Australian Spirituality 231 Vassilios Adrahtas 12 Continuities and Change in Greek American Orthodoxy 253 Effie Fokas and Dena Fokas Moses Index 281 List of Figures 3.1 Aghios Gheorghios, Htikados, Tinos: a. east side; b. north side 59 3.2 Plan of the doors flanking the sanctuary of the church of Afendis Christos in Ierapetra, Crete. ASV, Provveditori da Terra e da Mar, b. 786 59 3.3 Church of the Transfiguration, Htikados, Tinos: the conches of the sanctuary 60 3.4 Church of the Transfiguration, Htikados, Tinos: a. M(ater) D(ei); b. (ΕΛΕΗ)ΜΟΝΙΤΡΙΑ 61 3.5 Aghia Ekaterini, Tsiknias, Tinos: two aisles separated by a middle colonnade 62 6.1 Father Agapios, who in 2001 was in charge of the music department at Vatopaidi, attends the construction of the new landing stage, November 2001 130 This page has been left blank intentionally Notes on Contributors vassilios adrahtas holds a PhD in Sociology, a PhD in Religious Studies and is currently completing a PhD in Theology. As a postdoctoral fellow he has conducted research in Political Science. He has lectured at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College (Sydney College of Divinity), the University of Sydney, the National University of Athens, the Hellenic Open University and the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He is the author of three books and a substantial number of articles in academic journals, and has delivered papers at international conferences. Currently he is a postgraduate research supervisor at the Hellenic Open University and an honorary research fellow at the University of Sydney. eftichia arvaniti received her PhD from the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, University of Vienna, with the thesis Orthodox and Catholics in One Church: The Symbiosis of the Dogmas in Common Churches on the Cyclades and Saronic Islands (15th–18th Centuries). Her research interests are Byzantine and post-Byzantine/religious and secular architecture, and the history and monuments of Latin rule (Venetians, Genovese, Franks, Catalans) in Greece (thirteenth– eighteenth centuries). She has presented her work at several international conferences and has published parts of her work in German and Greek. spyridoula athanasopoulou-kypriou (BA Athens; MA, PhD Manchester) is a lecturer in Theology at the Hellenic Open University. She specializes in contextual and political theology. Her publications include various articles on theology and literature and on feminist theology. Among her recent publications are: ‘The Essentials of Theology in Feminist – That Is to Say Ecclesial – Perspective’, in Many Women Were Also There … The Participation of Orthodox Women in the Ecumenical Movement, ed. Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi et al., Geneva: World Council of Churches (WCC) Publications, 2010; Texts for Nothing: An Encounter of Theology and Literature with Reference to the Works of Samuel Beckett, Athens: Armos, 2009 (in Greek); and Not I: Essays on Political Theology with References to Issues of Gender, Religion and Ideology, Athens: Armos, 2011 (in Greek). She is currently working on the history of religious women in Greece. Effie Fokas is a research fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), leading a project entitled ‘Pluralism and Religious Freedom in Orthodox Countries in Europe’. She is Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) Forum on Religion and holds a PhD from the LSE. Her
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