The ethno-nationalist and mass communication secularizing impact upon Orthodoxy
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In the new era of globalization the Greek Orthodox Church remains to its traditional role, that of a state-national church. Whereas the State is gradually oriented towards postnationalist globalizing processes, the Church is proceeding the other way adjusting itself to the logic of cultural nationalism. As a consequence, it is politicized in the most profound way; its current politicization is concomitant with a process of ethno-religious secularization which is further related to a special type of mass communication secularizing impact. The more the Greek Orthodox Church performs overt political functions the more it will depend on the electronic media, especially television. Due to the mediatization of religion as quasi-religious experience is formed which is connected with the desacretization of the Orthodox world view and the conversationalization of the religious discourse.
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Δεμερτζής Ν. (2015). The ethno-nationalist and mass communication secularizing impact upon Orthodoxy. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 5, 83–101. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.545
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