ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the religious tendencies of current Greek reality. It reviews ancient Greek religion, which set within the wider universal neo-Pagan movement. The chapter associates with the tendency to interrelate and identify Hellenism and Orthodoxy, which is characterized by the fundamentalist features. The neo-Pagan admirers of ancient Greek culture succeed in blending 'traumatic' religious feelings with essential humanist values. In this way a situation of a 'golden age' is presented: a utopian situation where neither people nor their religion contained anything derogatory. Greek-Orthodox religious reality is a common feature of all contemporary religions which try to emphasize this 'untouched mark of reference' as a higher goal, one that states its connection with its power and legitimacy. The modern Greek state identifies the cultural structures of Orthodoxy with those of Ancient Greece and found their own bridge to 'authentic' Hellenism, without any need to be cut off from the main body of contemporary Greek Christianity.
