Religious and National Mythmaking: Conservation and Reconstruction of the Social Memory
Religious and National Mythmaking: Conservation and Reconstruction of the Social Memory

Summary/Abstract: This essay examines the notions of otherness; the making of a past, and the shaping of a national/religious/cultural identity, using the example of the village of Nea Karvali as a case study. The village was founded in the mid-1920s in northern Greece by Orthodox Christian Turkish-speaking refugees from the village of Gelveri in Cappadocia, Turkey. This study focuses on a series of religious and national myths that were created to secure honourable past for the group; to preserve and reconstruct its social and cultural memory, and, ultimately, to facilitate the community’s process of integration into the new social environment.

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