Religious Discourse and Radical Right Politics in Contemporary Greece, 2010–2014

Papastathis, Konstantinos

doi:10.1080/21567689.2015.1077705

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“…Reaction against this perceived movement has animated the European right (see Bhatt, 2012), with the established church supporting and legitimising such views in some cases (on GD and the Greek Orthodox Church see Papasthathis, 2015). Jones (2016) considers the broad spectrum of social movements of the right and left in the early 21 st century and takes a more positive stance.…”

Section: Populism and Religion In Times Of Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

O’Brien¹

2017

The People and the State

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Protest is an important measure of discontent within society and can be seen as a form of politics by other means. In periods of uncertainty and instability, protest can harm incumbent regimes by heightening and amplifying tensions, potentially leading to crisis and collapse in extreme cases. The wave of democratisation that characterised the last quarter of the 20 th century saw a number of weak democracies emerge and struggle, whereas other regime changes saw new forms of authoritarianism emerge. Crises in the early 21 st century have shaken both democratic and non-democratic states, leading to large-scale 'occupy' movements and uprisings that have brought down regimes in the former Soviet Union and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 1 region. Common to these diverse protests is a feeling of anti-politics that draws on populist and religious motivations to challenge the state. The aim of this paper is to consider the significance of this apparent wave of protest and identify the driving factors. In order to do this the paper examines arguments around the quality of democracy (and autocracy), state-social movement interactions and the rise of populist and religious movements.

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Section: Populism and Religion In Times Of Crisismentioning

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Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

O’Brien¹

2017

The People and the State

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“…Drawing on research in Australia and the UK, she argues that the ultimate goal of the organisation presents a direct challenge to the state. Reaction against this perceived movement has animated the European right (see Bhatt, 2012), with the established church supporting and legitimising such views in some cases (on GD and the Greek Orthodox Church, see Papasthathis, 2015). Jones (2015) considers the broad spectrum of social movements of the right and left in the early twenty-first century and takes a more positive stance.…”

Section: Populism and Religion In Times Of Crisismentioning

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Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

O’Brien

2015

Contemporary Social Science

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Protest is an important measure of discontent within society and can be seen as a form of politics by other means. In periods of uncertainty and instability, protest can harm incumbent regimes by heightening and amplifying tensions, potentially leading to crisis and collapse in extreme cases. The wave of democratisation that characterised the last quarter of the twentieth century saw a number of weak democracies emerge and struggle, whereas other regime changes saw new forms of authoritarianism emerge. Crises in the early twentyfirst century have shaken both democratic and non-democratic states, leading to large-scale 'occupy' movements and uprisings that have brought down regimes in the former Soviet Union and across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 1 region. Common to these diverse protests is a feeling of antipolitics that draws on populist and religious motivations to challenge the state. The aim of this paper is to consider the significance of this apparent wave of protest and identify the driving factors. In order to do this, the paper examines arguments around the quality of democracy (and autocracy), state-social movement interactions and the rise of populist and religious movements.

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“…Studies of the church's enduring role in Greek society and politics have ignored this particular instance of 'hard' administrative change (mixed-member committees) in the central governance structure of the organisation. Instead, they have focused overwhelmingly on 'soft' change, particularly on variations in the intensity of the church's conservative discourse (Alivizatos 1999;Mavrogordatos 2003;Stavrakakis 2003;Karagiannis 2009;Oulis et al 2010;Fokas 2013;Patrikios 2013;Papastathis 2015). These studies have reinforced a popular stereotype of the organisation as one 'noted for its conservatism and its tendency to religious nationalism' (Kalaitzidis 2009, 158).…”

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Ideological traditionalism and organisational innovation in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical governance

Patrikios¹

2020

Journal of Contemporary Religion

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Studies of church governance approach religious change either as 'soft' transformation (ideological and discursive adjustments implemented by clerical elites) or as 'hard' restructuring (shifts in decision-making processes and administrative forms). This article illustrates that the joint, rather than separate, consideration of the two types of change provides a more nuanced description of the internal dynamics of religious organisations.Employing a framework with comparative applicability, which breaks with standard theoretical approaches, the empirical application examines a case in which the two types of change coincided: the Orthodox Church of Greece in the late twentieth century, where a radically conservative ideological transformation accompanied a particular instance of bureaucratic modernisation (lay involvement in high-level ecclesiastical governance).

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Religious Discourse and Radical Right Politics in Contemporary Greece, 2010–2014

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Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

Populism, protest and democracy in the twenty-first century

Ideological traditionalism and organisational innovation in Greek Orthodox ecclesiastical governance

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