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A Journal for Greek Letters from Stories to Narratives: the Enigmas of Transition Vol. 18 2016 - 2017 Introduction a Journal for Greek letters From Stories to Narratives: the enigmas of transition Editors Vrasidas Karalis and Panayota Nazou 1 Vol. 18 2016 - 2017 a Journal for Greek letters From Stories to Narratives: the enigmas of transition Editors Vrasidas Karalis and Panayota Nazou The Modern Greek Studies by academics are refereed (standard process of blind peer Association of Australia and assessment). This is New Zealand (MGSAANZ) a DEST recognised publication. President - Vrasidas Karalis Το περιοδικό φιλοξενεί άρθρα στα Αγγλικά και Vice President - Maria Herodotou τα Ελληνικά αναφερόμενα σε όλες τις απόψεις Treasurer - Panayota Nazou των Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (στη γενικότητά Secretary - Panayiotis Diamadis τους). Υποψήφιοι συνεργάτες θα πρέπει να The Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia υποβάλλουν κατά προτίμηση τις μελέτες των and New Zealand (MGSAANZ) was founded in 1990 σε ηλεκτρονική και σε έντυπη μορφή. Όλες οι as a professional association by those in Australia συνεργασίες από πανεπιστημιακούς έχουν υπο- and New Zealand engaged in Modern Greek Studies. Membership is open to all interested in any area of βληθεί στην κριτική των εκδοτών και επιλέκτων Greek studies (history, literature, culture, tradition, πανεπιστημιακών συναδέλφων. economy, gender studies, sexualities, linguistics, The editors would like to express their cinema, Diaspora etc.). Published for the Modern Greek Studies Association gratitude to Mr. Nick Valis & Blink Print The Association issues a Newsletter (Ενημέρωση), of Australia and New Zealand (MGSAANZ) holds conferences and publishes two journals for their generous assistance. annually. Department of Modern Greek, University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Editorial board T (02) 9351 7252 Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney) [email protected] Maria Herodotou (La Trobe University) Panayota Nazou (University of Sydney) ISSN 1039-2831 Anthony Dracopoulos (The University of Sydney) Panayotis Diamadis (University of Technology) Copyright Elizabeth Kefallinos (Maquarie University) Copyright in each contribution to this journal belongs to its author. Membership and subscriptions © 2017, Modern Greek Studies Association of (including annual subscription for 2 issues) Australia Individual: AUS $50 US $50 All rights reserved. No parts of this publication EUR €40 may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or Institutions: AUS $100 transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, US $100 mechanical or otherwise without the prior permission EUR €80 of the publisher. Full-time students/ Pensioners AUS $30 Editors US $40 Vrasidas Karalis & Panayota Nazou EUR €30 Cover Image Correspondence and payments artist and source: Theophilos Hatzimihail (1870-1934) Dancers in Koroni, 1930 Department of Modern Greek A18, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Design T (+612) 9351 7252 Marietta and Martin Buikema E-mail [email protected] TWOMINDS Design Studio Please send submissions in Times New Roman Printing 12pt, 1.5 spacing, single inverted commas for quotes, Blink Print with endnotes rather than footnotes. Typeface The periodical welcomes papers in both English and Greek Museo Sans, on all aspects of Modern Greek Studies (broadly defined). Chaparral Pro and Prospective contributors should preferably submit their Scotch Modern papers on disk and hard copy. All published contributions Scotch Micro Contents / Vestigial States: Secular Space and the John N Yiannakis Churches in Contemporary Australia / p.8 The Author as Reader: the case of Margarita Carole M. Cusack Karapanou / p.193 Sophie Iakovidou Καβάφης: Παθητική συμφωνία / p.33 Michael Tsianikas Friends in Crisis: Anzacs and Hellenism / p.211 George Michelakakis, Visual Artist in Panayiotis Diamadis ‘the Time of Death’ / p.56 George Vassilacopoulos & Accepting the blogging challenge: Modern Toula Nicolacopoulos Greek Language Teaching at Tertiary Level / p.238 Νεοελληνικές Σπουδές, Εκμάθηση Antonios Litinas, Maria Palaktsoglou, Γλωσσών και Πολιτισμική Επάρκεια Maria Shialis, Michael Tsianikas, Cecily Modern Greek Studies, Language Learning Wright and Cultural Competence / p.81 Anthony Dracopoulos Telling the truth through lying about lying in Lucian's true stories Un-framing the Greek Civil War / p.107 / p.255 Dimitris Paivanas George Couvalis Κείμενο και εικόνα: ο τηλεοπτικός Snapshots of Hellenism: Positioning Μ. Καραγάτσης / p.123 the Self within the Diasporic Space that Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsinis Informs the Frame / p.271 Konstandina Dounis Red Hulk: A Modern Greek Tragedy of Dysfunction and Alienation / p.148 This Star Is For All Of Us / p.291 Sophia Sakellis Tasos Leivaditis (Translated by N.N. Trakakis) “Either of the Height or of the Depth”: Nanos Valaoritis’ De-stereotyping of the Ode Nocturnal and Neolithic to Kronstadt “Greeks” in the Time of Crisis / p.165 (1987) / p.309 Vassiliki Rapti Nikos Karouzos (translated by Vrasidas Karalis) True Grit: A snapshot from a longitudinal study about Greek Migrant Women in Nikos Karouzos (1926-1990): a Christian eastern Australia / p.182 poet between nihilism and tragedy / p.322 Vrasidas Karalis Bacchos, Theophilos Contributors / p.328 Cusack Cusack Carole M. Cusack University of Sydney Vestigial States: Secular Space and the Churches in Contemporary Australia1 Introduction The legacy of the Enlightenment is increasingly contested in the twen- ty-first century. Science is a key explanatory authority for technological modernity, but since the mid-twentieth century new religious forms and supernaturally-tinged popular culture (close relatives of religion, but liber- ated from the traditional and institutional aspects of that phenomenon) have been resurgent. The so-called ‘World Religions’ (the biblical creeds of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the sub-continental dharmic tradi- tions of Hinduism and Buddhism) have resisted the notion that they share a common inheritance with secularism. It is here argued that these ongo- ing disclaimers are examples of professional boundary maintenance that reveals much about the embattled position of traditional religious institu- tions within secular modernity, in which popular culture and communica- tions media have radically transformed the climate in which religious affili- ation and spiritual identities are negotiated.2 From a religious studies point of view, the methodological models of sociology and cognitive science(which are representative of a range of non- confessional scholarly approaches), clarify these boundary conflicts as intrin- sically politically-motivated stances aimed at shoring up religion’s declining power bases in the Western countries like Australia, through the assump- tion of roles offered by governments (provision of education, medical care, Alexander on horse, Theophilos8 8 9 Cusack Cusack job provision agencies and so on).3 Naomi Goldenberg’s model of religious all matters’,6 had inspired the American War of Independence (1775-1782), institutions as ‘vestigial states’, defined as ‘the institutional and cultural and would manifest in the French Revolution of 1789, the Haitian slave remainders of former sovereign ties surviving within the jurisdictions of revolt led by rebel Toussaint L’Ouverture in 1791, and a range of other anti- contemporary governments provides valuable insights’.4 When the church- colonialist and democratic uprisings. Britain had an inherited social and es are viewed in this way, it is clear that in order to retain any influence political system that featured a monarch, a bicameral legislature, and an in secular societies in which they can no longer make citizens heed them, established church, the Church of England. The United States of America religious bodies needs must partner with secular Western states to retain instituted a republic, comprising a federal two-house system (Senate and what little power is offered to them. This article uses Goldenberg’s model as Congress) and a directly-elected President, with state governments beneath a lens through which to examine the contemporary Australian political and the federal level. Significantly, the American constitution mentioned reli- religious landscape. gion just once; at the end of the Third Clause of Article 6, it states that ‘no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States’. Additional information about the place of Religion, the Enlightenment, and Romanticism: Reason and religion in the modern secular republic of the United States is contained in Democracy the 1st Amendment, which provides that, ‘Congress shall make no law re- The twin artistic and intellectual currents of the eighteenth century, specting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there- the Enlightenment and Romanticism, advocated radically different ap- of’.7 The complication of a state level of government means that throughout proaches to knowledge, authority, philosophy, aesthetics, and religion the centuries various states have attempted to make laws regarding religion (among other political and cultural domains). The Enlightenment champi- that have been overturned by the judicial system, in protection of what is oned scientific experiment (empiricism),the primacy of reason in both in- commonly called the ‘separation of powers’ (that is, the non-establishment dividual decision-making and societal standards, and the universality and of any religion). Further, the religious freedoms of the 1st Amendment are public status of knowledge arrived
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