By using both modern and ancient sources, this volume explores the relationship between official religion and popular belief in Greece, as illustrated by the relations between competing ideologies, or the relationship between ideology and mentality. It shows that the communicative aspect of the religious festival is central, and allows the reader to get to know other sides of Greece than the picture that today dominates the news resulting from the economic crisis with which the county has struggled for several years.
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Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2019
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781527526129
About Evy Johanne Haland
Evy Johanne Håland holds a PhD in History and is a life-time government scholar (Norwegian statsstipendiat). She is a former Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens where she worked on the project Greek Women and Death Ancient and Modern: A Comparative Analysis financed by the EUs 7th framework Programme. Her publications include Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece: Writing History from a Female Perspective (2014); Greek Festivals Modern and Ancient: A Comparison of Female and Male Values (2017); and Women Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday-Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond (2008).