Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic
Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press
2008.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009437078006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Materials used in this study
- The life of Nikolaj Velimirovic and his changing public image, 1945-2003
- Denigration and marginalization : Velimirovic's status in post-war Yugoslavia
- Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirovic's status today
- Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirovic and the repression of controversy
- The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement
- Velimirovic in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth
- The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirovic'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 Velimirovic'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 Velimirovic?
- 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 Velimirovic'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" : Velimirovic and the miracle of epiphany
- Velimirovic as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".
