Serbian orthodox fundamentals : the quest for an eternal identity /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Nation, religion and fundamentalism
- Synopsis
- The basic argument
- "And the earth was without form and void"
- What is religion?
- "If God does not exist, He would have to be invented"
- Communio in sacris
- Defining the "national" within the "Serbian"
- The "fundamentalist" discourse
- Accounting for "fundamentalism" in Serbia
- Conclusion
- 2. Orthodoxy and Serbian national identity
- Synopsis
- Introduction
- The "doctrinal" content of orthodoxy
- The creation of man in the "image and likeness of God"
- The triune God: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
- The "functional" "cultus" content of orthodoxy
- The role of the orthodox liturgy
- The "normative" expressions of orthodoxy
- Baptism and chrismation
- The Eucharist
- The holy matrimony of marriage
- Orthodox iconography
- Serbian orthodoxy
- The foundations of the Serbian orthodoxy
- Orthodoxy as the sacralisation of the Serbian identity
- Krsna slava
- The religious (non) affinity of the Serbs
- Conclusion
- 3. Homo serbicus
- Synopsis
- The moral and ethical construction of the Serbian cosmology
- Homo serbicus (historical and territorial hypostases)
- The "love ethic"
- Honour
- The concept of heroism
- The concept of freedom
- The concepts of justice and vengeance
- Unity in diversity
- The zadruga
- Kumstvo
- Homo serbicus (Balkan mentality)
- Homo serbicus (mere stereotypes?)
- Conclusion
- 4. The pursuit of "secular" salvation
- Synopsis
- "Vox populi or vox dei"?
- Serbian orthodoxy and Yugoslav communism
- Josip Broz Tito
- The Serbian monarchy
- The chetnik movement
- Slobodan Milosevic
- Orthodoxy and the culture of power in Serbia
- Serbian orthodoxy and democracy
- Conclusion
- 5. The pursuit of "sacrificial" salvation
- Synopsis
- National myth(s) and mythogenesis
- The Kosovo battle (1389)
- The legend of Kosovo
- Kosovo: the continuous dialogue between the present and the past
- The Kosovo "sacrifice"
- Conclusion
- 6. "To love your neighbour as yourself"
- Synopsis
- Homo homini lupus
- (Instrumental) violence and orthodoxy
- The Serbian warrior
- The "distortion" of brotherhood and unity
- God of life and death
- Homo et femina nervis laborans (psychosis)?
- Conclusion
- 7. The Balkan orthodox commonwealth
- Synopsis
- Orthodoxy as the sacralisation of Serbianhood
- The Greek orthodoxy
- The Bulgarian orthodoxy
- The Romanian orthodoxy
- Conclusion.