Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism : Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic /

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1881-1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contemporary Serbian national culture. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a fascist and an antisemite, this Orthodox Christian thinker has over the past two decades come to be r...

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Autor principal: Byford, Jovan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Velimirović, Nikolaj, > 1880-1956.
Srpska pravoslavna crkva.
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Orthodox Eastern Church > Serbia > Bishops > Biography.
Srpska pravoslavna crkva > Bishops > Biography.
Christian saints.
Bishops.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Nationalism & Patriotism.
RELIGION > Christianity > Orthodox.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Religious.
Christian saints > Serbia > Biography.
Serbia.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Rising above the criticisms : refusal to engage in controversy as a form of denial
  • "Tiny mosquitoes" and the mighty "eagle" : who has the right to remember Nikolaj Velimirović?
  • The letter from "a Jewish woman" : Bishop Nikolaj as the savior of Jews
  • The two kinds of antisemitism : the rhetoric of interpretative denial
  • Repeating the word of God : authority of the Gospels and the reification of antisemitic discourse
  • "Then we are all antisemites!" : "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity
  • Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism
  • Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution
  • Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović's sanctity
  • The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult"
  • Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity
  • Finding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons
  • The bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany
  • Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah."

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