Efstathios Kessareas is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Religious Studies – Chair of Orthodox Christianity of the University of Erfurt. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Crete and a MA in Religious and Development Studies from the University of Leeds. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Sociology at the Panteion University in Athens and another one in Greek Philology at the University of Crete. In the past he conducted postdoctoral research at the Center for Social Theory of Ghent University. He has published on sociology of religion, Orthodox Christianity, and Modern Greek ideology.
Efstathios Kessareas at Academia.edu
Latest Publications:
May 2023
Kessareas, Efstathios (2023) "'Signs of the times': Prophecy belief in contemporary Greek Orthodox contexts". Social Compass, 70 (1): 73–90.
February 2023
Kessareas, Efstathios (2023) "'Signs of the times': Prophecy belief in contemporary Greek Orthodox contexts". Social Compass, 70 (1): 73–90.
Kessareas Efstathios (2023) "Economic Crisis, European Orientation, and Greek Orthodox Ideology" (in Greek), Social Science Tribune 20 (76): 28-63.
Kessareas, Efstathios (2023) "Modernizers, Fundamentalists, and the 'Third Way' in the Orthodox Church" [in Greek]. Polymeros kai Polytropos, Volos Academy for Theological Studies, February 15th.
December 2022
Kessareas, Efstathios (2022) Church, Ideology, and Politics in Post-Dictatorial Greece. A Sociological Approach [in Greek]. Athens: Papazisi
Kessareas, Efstathios (2022) "Analysing Religious Public Discourses: Categories of Thought and Value Differences ", Sociology Lens, December 12th.
November 2022
Efstathios Kessareas (2022) "Geistliche Väter und ihre Idolisierung im orthodoxen Christentum", Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 50/11: 3–5.
Kessareas, Efstathios, "The Church in Times of Crisis: A Refuge or a Driver for Change?", The Wheel Journal, 28/29: 66–71, 2022.
