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Prophecy and Power: The Politics of Popular Eschatology in Contemporary Greece | Supervisors: Maria Boletsi, Boris Noordenbos | 29 October 2025, 13.00. Agnietenkapel.
Event details of Dissertation Defense: Vasilis Alexiadis
Date
29 October 2025
Time
13:00
Location
Agnietenkapel
Room
Agnietenkapel

This dissertation examines the role of prophecy in contemporary Greek Orthodox Christianity and its influence on politics, culture, and national identity. Prophecies, framed as imminent visions of the End, circulate through charismatic monks, media, and popular culture, shaping responses to crises, conflict, and war. Drawing on discourse analysis, structural analysis, and ethnography, the study shows how prophetic narratives both critique the realities of neoliberal austerity and mobilize nationalist sentiment, legitimizing systems of oppression, exclusionary politics, and ethnoreligious authority. Far from marginal, they function as powerful meaning-making practices that connect past, present, and future through conspiratorial and apocalyptic lenses, shaping social and political life in Greece and beyond.

 

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