Modern Greek Enlightenment and Anti-Clericalism (hardcover edition)

The only historical study on Anti-clericalism during the period of the modern Greek Enlightenment. A collective volume that reveals unknown aspects of Greek history.

It is little known that Anti-clericalism was (beyond the European) a key feature of the modern Greek Enlightenment, something that is evident from the work and action of a large portion of Greek scholars of the pre-revolutionary period, as well as from the content of a significant number of informative publications of the time.
The paradox lies in the fact that although studies on the modern Greek Enlightenment began to flourish in our country in the 60s, during the previous decades no relevant event or conference "happened" to address the issue of the development of Anti-clericalism in the pre-revolutionary period.

In February 2024, at the initiative of the Lux Orbis Series and the Movement of Greek Citizens for the Secularization of the State (KEPEK), the conference "Modern Greek Enlightenment and Anti-clericalism" was organized at the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, with the participation of notable academic and historical researchers.

The fruit of this successful event is the volume you hold in your hands. Readers of the book have the opportunity to come into contact with topics such as the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary ideological confrontations in Greece, the role of the radical modern Greek Enlightenment in the preparation of the great uprising, the reactions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the arrival of modern ideas, the conditions under which the excommunication against the revolutionaries was issued, the questioning of the historicity of Jesus by Greek scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries, but also the concept of Secularization during the Ottonian period.

The following authors participate in the volume with their works:
George Dritsas, Aris Katopodis, Eleni Kourmantzi, Stelios Lamnis, Yannis Bandekas, Minas Papageorgiou, Petros Pizanias, Christos Reppas, Alexandros Sakellariou, Alexandra Sfoini, Petros Tatsopoulos and Elisabeth Tsakanika.