Colonizing Christianity : : Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade / / George E. Demacopoulos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Demacopoulos, George E.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek community over how best to respond to the Latin other while illuminating the mechanisms by which Western Christians authorized and exploited the Christian East. The experience of colonial subjugation opened permanent fissures within the Orthodox community, which struggled to develop a consistent response to aggressive demands for submission to the Roman Church.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Robert de Clari -- 2. Gunther of Pairis's Hystoria Constantinopolitana -- 3. Innocent's Ambivalence -- 4. Demetrios Chomatianos: Colonial Resistance and the Fear of Sacramental Miscegenation -- 5. George Akropolites and the Counterexample(s) -- 6. The Chronicle of Morea -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought