The Impact of Orthodox Churches on Economic and Social Development

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Over 80% of Greeks identify as Orthodox, but only 15% practice their religion. Do you believe that whether a country is predominantly Orthodox or not has an impact on its economic and social development? You know, this is something that scholars have debated for decades now. There is some correlation, but we're not sure what where the causes actually lie.

When it comes to the development of Western Europe there was religion and then there was science. That is how the story is generally told but Anna Gryzmala Busse believes that modern Europe owes more to the religious part of that than is generally appreciated. She has written Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton UP, 2023) and talks to Owen Bennett Jones about religion and the European state.

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.

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