| Popis: |
This chapter analyzes the secular and the religious components of the Greek civil religion, as well as the basic features of the sponsored, by State and Church, civic religions of Greece up to 1974, the year the junta regime gave way to the Third Greek Republic, and new definitions of the nation and the political community. In all, it argues that the complex populism-collectivism, which characterizes Greek politics today, emerged during the junta regime (1967–1974), in the form of an authoritarian civic religion which glorified the authenticity of rural life, and the virtues of the ‘common folk’. |
