Beschreibung:
In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institution, becoming the focal point in the lives of the country's million-plus Greek immigrants and their descendants.
Introduction1. Greek Orthodoxy Arrives in America2. Americanization and the Immigrant Church in the 1920s3. Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism4. The Greek Orthodox Church in between Greece and America5. Assimilation and Respectability in the 1950s6. The Challenges of the 1960s7. Greek Orthodoxy and the Ethnic Revival8. Church and Homeland9. Toward an American Greek Orthodoxy10. The Challenges for an American Greek Orthodoxy11. Church and Patriarchate and the Limits of Americanization12. Greek Orthodoxy in America Enters the Twenty-First Century