Denial and repression of antisemitism : post-communist remembrance 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...
| Основен автор: | Byford, Jovan. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2008.
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Denial and repression of antisemitism. |
Съдържание:
- 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."