Format:
Online-Ressource (vii, 269 p., [8] p. of plates)
,
ill. (some col.)
ISBN:
1283248069
,
9781283248068
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Materials Used in the Study -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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 of Serbian nationalism -- Remembering in order to forget: The martyrdom myth and repression -- The dynamic of everyday forgetting: Continuity and the "routinization" of repression -- 4. 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 antisemtism -- "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 -- 5. "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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-259) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 128324974X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789639776159
Additional Edition:
Print version Byford, Jovan Denial and Repression of Anti-Semitism : Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic New York : Central European University Press,c2008
Language:
English
