Stefanos Katsikas

Gebundenes Buch

Proselytes of a New Nation

Muslim Conversions to Orthodox Christianity in Modern Greece

Beschreibung

Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did conversion mean to the converts? What were their economic, social, and professional profiles? And how did conversion affect the converts' relationships with Muslim relatives in Greece and the Ottoman Empire? Stefanos Katsikas maintains that in the era of nationalism--when Sharia law and the Ottoman legal system could keep converts from inheriting family property; when converts were regarded as either "traitors" or "heroes"--conversion more drastically affected the social fabric of communities and more often led to violence and conflict.

Autor

Stefanos Katsikas is Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in History and Political Sciences from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. His research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary history of Europe, with focus Southeastern Europe, on issues such as democratization, minority-state relations, regional security, the emergence of nationalism and its impact on religious and national identities, Islam, Christianity and Judaism as well as religious conversions. He is the author of Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1862 and Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe: Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist Bulgaria, which received a Scouloudi publication award from the Institute of Historical Research in London. Katsikas is also the editor of Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities; and co-editor of State Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims (1830-1945).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780197621752
• ISBN-10: 0197621759
• Artikelnr.: 64081942