Denial and repression of antisemitism: post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović
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 remem...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest New York
Central European University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Velimirović, Nikolaj 1880-1956
/ Serbia
/ Serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche
/ Church policy
/ History 1945-2003
B Post-communism / Religious identity / Intolerance / Antisemitism / Xenophobia / History 1990-2003 B History 1945-2003 |
| Further subjects: | B
Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva
Bishops Biography
B Velimirović, Nikolaj (1880-1956) B Christian saints (Serbia) Biography B Orthodox Eastern Church (Serbia) Bishops Biography |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index |
| ISBN: | 9639776157 |