Abstract
Greek and Turkish nationalism have more commonalities that one might think. Their treatment of the question of religion is a milestone in the nation-building process. It highlights how two states can depart with a lag of virtually one-hundred years, from secularist beginnings and come to point eventually to strike a compromise with religion. In that compromise religion provides crucial symbolic resources and social cohesion, while nationalism instrumentalizes religion and removes its universalistic aspects to serve national interest.
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For a recent comparative study of Greek and Turkish nationalisms, see Umut Özkırımlı and Spyros A. Sofos, Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey (London: Hurst and Co., 2008).
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Grigoriadis, I.N. (2013). Introduction. In: Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A “Sacred Synthesis”. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301208_1
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