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Author Kitroeff, Alexander, author.

Title The Greek Orthodox Church in America : a modern history / Alexander Kitroeff
Published Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource
Series NIU series in orthodox Christian studies
Contents Greek Orthodoxy arrives in America -- Americanization & the immigrant church in the 1920s -- Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism -- The Orthodox Church in between Greece and America -- Greek Orthodoxy in the 1950s : assimilation & respectability -- The challenges of the 1960s -- Greek Orthodoxy & the ethnic revival -- Church & homeland -- Towards an American Greek Orthodoxy -- The challenges for an American Greek Orthodoxy -- Church & patriarchate & the limits of Americanization -- Greek Orthodoxy in America enters the twenty-first century
Summary "Shows how the Greek Orthodox Church became the most important Greek institution in the United States and the main force that shaped Greek American ethnic identity in the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 08, 2020)
Subject Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America -- History
SUBJECT Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America fast
Subject Greek Americans -- Religion
Greek Americans -- Ethnic identity
HISTORY / United States / General.
Greek Americans -- Ethnic identity
Greek Americans -- Religion
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019037652
ISBN 9781501749445
1501749455
9781501749452
1501749447