Neophotistoi and Apostates: Greece and Conversion in the Nineteenth Century

Q3 Arts and Humanities Historein Pub Date : 2022-01-07 DOI:10.12681/historein.24980
Evdoxios Doxiadis
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Greek historiography no longer ignores the massacres of non-Christians during the Greek War of Independence, but little thought is given to the fate of those Muslims and Jews that survived or how their presence, as non-Christians or as new converts, impacted the new state, its ideology, structures, policies or laws. This article begins to address this gap and attempts to highlight the seriousness with which Greek governments, both in the revolutionary and post-independence periods, confronted this issue. Using a variety of sources such as wills and dowry contracts, court cases, government records and revolutionary memoirs, the article attempts to show that modern historiography has underestimated the numbers and significance of converts and conversion, and that in this regard Greece and the Ottoman Empire share remarkable similarities in their treatment of conversion, the conflicts it generated, and the use of religion to shore up political weakness. As in the Ottoman Empire, conversion was a thorny issue for the early Greek governments that were trying to establish their legitimacy in the international arena. At the same time it provided opportunities for Greece to assert its influence far beyond its physical capacities, presenting itself as the defender of Orthodox Christians, a role previously monopolised by the Russian Empire.
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《新信仰与叛教者:19世纪的希腊与皈依》
希腊史学不再忽视希腊独立战争期间对非基督徒的屠杀,但很少考虑那些幸存下来的穆斯林和犹太人的命运,也很少考虑他们作为非基督徒或新皈依者的存在如何影响新国家、其意识形态、结构、政策或法律。本文开始探讨这一差距,并试图强调希腊政府在革命时期和独立后时期面对这一问题的严肃性。文章利用遗嘱和嫁妆合同、法庭案件、政府记录和革命回忆录等多种来源,试图表明现代史学低估了皈依和皈依的数量和意义,在这方面,希腊和奥斯曼帝国在对待皈依、引发的冲突、,以及利用宗教来巩固政治弱点。与奥斯曼帝国一样,对于试图在国际舞台上建立合法性的早期希腊政府来说,皈依是一个棘手的问题。与此同时,它为希腊提供了机会,使其能够发挥远远超出其身体能力的影响力,将自己塑造成东正教的捍卫者,这一角色此前被俄罗斯帝国垄断。
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