The Greek Orthodox Church in America : a modern history /
Kitroeff, Alexander,
The Greek Orthodox Church in America : a modern history / Alexander Kitroeff. - Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Greek Orthodoxy arrives in America -- Americanization and the immigrant church in the 1920s -- Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism -- The Orthodox Church in between Greece and America -- Greek Orthodoxy in the 1950s : assimilation and respectability -- The challenges of the 1960s -- Greek Orthodoxy and the ethnic revival -- Church and homeland -- Towards an American Greek Orthodoxy -- The challenges for an American Greek Orthodoxy -- Church and patriarchate and the limits of Americanization -- Greek Orthodoxy in America enters the twenty-first century.
"Shows how the Greek Orthodox Church became the most important Greek institution in the United States and the main force that shaped Greek American ethnic identity in the twentieth century"--
9781501749445 9781501749452
2019037652
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America--History.
Greek Americans--Religion.
Greek Americans--Ethnic identity.
Electronic Books.
BX738 / .G744 2020
The Greek Orthodox Church in America : a modern history / Alexander Kitroeff. - Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, (c)2020. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Greek Orthodoxy arrives in America -- Americanization and the immigrant church in the 1920s -- Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism -- The Orthodox Church in between Greece and America -- Greek Orthodoxy in the 1950s : assimilation and respectability -- The challenges of the 1960s -- Greek Orthodoxy and the ethnic revival -- Church and homeland -- Towards an American Greek Orthodoxy -- The challenges for an American Greek Orthodoxy -- Church and patriarchate and the limits of Americanization -- Greek Orthodoxy in America enters the twenty-first century.
"Shows how the Greek Orthodox Church became the most important Greek institution in the United States and the main force that shaped Greek American ethnic identity in the twentieth century"--
9781501749445 9781501749452
2019037652
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America--History.
Greek Americans--Religion.
Greek Americans--Ethnic identity.
Electronic Books.
BX738 / .G744 2020