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This concluding chapter summarizes the arguments and findings of the study and identifies civil religion as the crucial battleground to instigate the transformation of Greek polity to a liberal one, and the transformation of a schismogenetic and fragmented society to a civil society.
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This was noticed first by Stephen Kalberg who brought it to my attention. I am indebted to him. For an elaborated analysis of how Eisenstadt uses Weber’s ‘ideas as switchmen’ in a ‘soft’ way, see Kalberg (2018).
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This is the reason holy icons are so important in Orthodox religiosity: their presence in out-of-church mundane environments functions as short-range sacral radiators amidst the impure world.
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Music composers Dimitris Mitropoulos and Manos Hatzidakis, singers Maria Kallas and Nana Mouschouri, painters Tsarouchis, Engonopoulos, and Fasianos, architects Dimitris Pikionis, Nikos Mitsakis, and Aris Konstantinidis, movie directors Nikos Tzavelas, Nikos Koundouros, and Yiannis Kakogiannis, actresses Katina Paxinou and Eirini Papa, and Nobel Prize winners in literature Kostas Seferis and Odysseas Elytis.
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Polytechnic School: The fall of logic and the encouragement of barbarism. Πολυτεχνείο: Η υποστολή της λογικής και η ενθάρρυνση της βαρβαρότητας http://www.kathimerini.gr/942380/gallery/epikairothta/ellada/polytexneio-h-ypostolh-ths-logikhs-kai-h-en8arrynsh-ths-varvarothtas.
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Marangudakis, M. (2019). Conclusions: Greek Political Culture and the Theory of Multiple Modernities. In: The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins. Cultural Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13589-8_17
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