ISBN:
9639776157
,
9789639776159
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 269 S., [4] Bl.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2008
DDC:
281.9092
Keywords:
Velimirović, Nikolaj
;
Srpska pravoslavna crkva Biography Bishops
;
Orthodox Eastern Church Biography Bishops
;
Christian saints Biography
;
Biografie
;
Velimirović, Nikolaj 1880-1956
;
Serbien
;
Serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche
;
Kirchenpolitik
;
Geschichte 1945-2003
;
Postkommunismus
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Intoleranz
;
Antisemitismus
;
Fremdenfeindlichkeit
;
Geschichte 1990-2003
;
Geschichte 1945-2003
Abstract:
Introduction -- Materials used in this study -- The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia -- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today -- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy -- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement -- Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth -- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism -- Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice -- "Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism -- "Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric -- Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism -- National self-glorification in a historical context -- Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism" -- "We are not antisemites, but-- " : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers -- "He was merely quoting the Bible!" : denial of Velimirović's antisemitism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index
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