Religious Tendencies in Greece at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century—An Approach to Contemporary Greek Reality

In the setting of postmodern relativism and after the withdrawal of political ideologies a new phenomenon emerges in Greek reality: the vision of “real Hellenism” which is set within the universal tendency to return to particular ethnic and religious traditions. This phenomenon is best expressed in two trends, which tend to become characteristic examples of contemporary Greek reality. We must mention, of course, at this point that these cover only a part and not the whole of the religious tendencies of current Greek reality. The first one is related to the attempt to revive ancient Greek religion, which is set within the wider universal neo-Pagan movement. The second one is associated with the tendency to interrelate and identify Hellenism and Orthodoxy, which is characterized by the fundamentalist features.