Competing Ideologies in Greek Culture, Ancient and Modern
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.
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 EU’s 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).
“The book represents a significant work within a field of the humanities which in many ways is interdisciplinary and […] uncovers interesting relationships between the sexes, between the elite and common people, between the official church and popular belief. It is an unusually extensive work [and] is implemented in an excellent way. I am convinced that this book will be read with interest by many, [and] is an unusual combination of scholarly knowledge about a specific subject and popularisation.”
Svein Mønnesland
Professor Emeritus of Slavic Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
“Håland’s greatest strength is her detailed knowledge of the society which she studies. She has spent several extended periods of time in Greece [and] has participated in the modern festivals which she studies. About this, she writes vigorously and engagingly. [This] book will certainly be of interest for a broader audience, as well as academics.”
Sverre Bagge
Professor Emeritus, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway
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