ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on recent historical scholarship on religion and nationalism in Greece, in order to discuss its particular themes and topics, evaluate its central interpretive schemas, and note its desiderata for future study. It refers mostly to postwar and post-dictatorship historical scholarship, which is based on extensive research on nationalism, and much less on religion. The study of Enlightenment ideas in Greek-speaking contexts is strongly linked to the name of K. Th. Dimaras, the leading figure in a related project and the initiator of a research field that has become known, since 1945, as the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. Greek national historiography throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth century has contributed strongly to the creation of an image of Orthodoxy as a homogeneous entity standing at the centre of national identity. The complex relation of the Enlightenment to religious perceptions and its multidimensional engagement with Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, the pagan tradition, and indeed Orthodoxy merits attention.
