Family, clergy, conviviality and morality among the Greek-Orthodox in Izmir at the end of the Empire

Abstract

This paper discusses the intricate relation between aspects of social life and the antagonism of the administrative institutions in a particular locality. By using cases of divorce decisions as well as contested weddings among people from different confessions which, despite the fact that they took place in Izmir were reported to and investigated by the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople, it aspires to shed light on those liminal aspects where locality and conviviality are transgressed in the name of tradition. Furthermore, the paper investigates the role of the clergy both in dealing with charity and the destitute, and as an institution, whose encounters with modernity triggers tensions and new perceptions of the relation between the church and its congregation, always bearing upon issues of morality and efficiency.

Analysis of Student Morality and Learning Achievement at Universitas Negeri Makassar

“…The family is the first place of education for students, which teaches about good and avoiding or not committing evil. The social and psychological development of healthy children is based on shared conceptual knowledge about right and wrong, which is the inculcation of values from the environment called family [3], [19]- [21].…”

‘Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Conviviality’? Some conceptual considerations concerning the late Ottoman Empire

“…This does not mean, however, that these older institutions entirely lost their role vis-á-vis the segments of the population which they represented. With regard to the millet s, for example, Kechriotis (2011) has argued that – in spite of the legal secularisation and the granting of equal rights – they were even strengthened in the late Ottoman period. They assumed new roles in an urban world that was becoming progressively more anonymous and in which the community could increasingly be avoided by those choosing to do so.…”