090049 VO The other Greeks: ethnic and religious minorities, 1830-2000 (2021W)

Although Eastern Orthodoxy is constitutionally recognised as the "prevailing religion" in Greece since the creation of the Modern Greek state, the Orthodox majority lived along with people of other religions, languages and cultures. This course draws our attention to this religious and ethnic heterogeneity, revisiting the history of Jewish, Muslim, Catholic but also Vlach, Pomak, Tsam and other communities, putting emphasis on their relationship to the state and the Greek-speaking Orthodox majority. Our aim will be to explore the dialectics of integration and exclusion as part and parcel of the formation and consecutive enlargements of the Modern Greek state and the transformations of national ideology during the 19th and 20th centuries.