Peripheries
This short chapter contains three case studies: on Malta, Cyprus, and the South Caucasus. Given their respective locations on the southern and south-eastern extremities of Europe, all three have been subject to diverse and at times competing religious currents over many centuries. The impact of thes...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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The Oxford handbook of religion and Europe
Year: 2022, Pages: 782-792 |
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Summary: | This short chapter contains three case studies: on Malta, Cyprus, and the South Caucasus. Given their respective locations on the southern and south-eastern extremities of Europe, all three have been subject to diverse and at times competing religious currents over many centuries. The impact of these currents needs careful interpretation. In the twenty-first century, Malta remains an actively Catholic society. Cyprus is still divided on ethno-religious lines: Turkish Cypriots are concentrated in the north and Greek Cypriots live in the south. The situation in the South Caucasus is more complex. It is shaped by a mixture of Western European, Russian, and Turkish references, but overall the region remains more a periphery of Europe than of Iran or Asia. |
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ISBN: | 0191872407 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Oxford handbook of religion and Europe
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834267.013.44 |