Language:
English
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Patterns of Prejudice
Angaben zur Quelle:
40,2 (2006) 159-180
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 1945-
Abstract:
After 1945, the Orthodox Churches failed to revise their theologies and to eradicate elements of antisemitism from their doctrines and liturgical practices. However, the Serbian Church has made efforts to articulate its doctrine without blatantly contravening the prevailing norms of ethnic and religious tolerance. Since 2000, the Serbian Church has been criticized by liberal public opinion for maintaining links with Christian right-wing groups whose political discourse includes antisemitic themes. Examines two texts: a public statement by the Church Synod in 2002, distancing itself from antisemitic allegations made by Father Žarko Gavrilović on television, and the article "Serbs and Jews", published in 2001 in the right-wing magazine "Dveri Srpske". The main rhetorical tactic employed by the Church mainstream and the Right is outright denial, stating that there is not and never has been any antisemitism in Serbia or within Orthodox Christianity. The main target of both texts is the "Serbophobe" liberal critics, rather than the "short-sighted" and "misguided" local antisemites. Argues that by buttressing the myth of Serbian tolerance, this denial implicitly perpetuates the same antisemitic elements of Serbian nationalist discourse that it meant to negate and refute.
DOI:
10.1080/00313220600634345
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