Serbian Orthodox Fundamentals
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Serbian Orthodox Fundamentals

The Quest for an Eternal Identity

  1. 306 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Serbian Orthodox Fundamentals

The Quest for an Eternal Identity

About this book

This book is a comprehensive exposition of the interaction of a national (the Serbian people) and a religiou (the Orthodox Christian faith) content, in the formation of a distinctive national identity and a mode of being. Its interdisciplinary approach, drawing on sociology, social anthropology, theology, political theory, Balkan historiography, and Serbian folklore, is deployed to provide a powerful and original analysis of how Serbian Orthodoxy has resulted in the sacralisation of the Serbian nation by framing the parameters of its existence. Addresses the following questions: what 'makes' a Serb? Are meaningful assumptions possible by introducing Serbian Orthodoxy as the primal point of reference? Why does religion appear to have an especially strong appeal?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. CONTENTS
  5. PREFACE
  6. Chapter One NATION, RELIGION AND FUNDAMENTALISM
  7. Synopsis
  8. The Basic Argument
  9. “And the Earth Was without Form and Void”
  10. What is Religion?
  11. “If God Does Not Exist, He Would Have to Be Invented”
  12. Communio in Sacris
  13. Defining the “National” within the “Serbian”
  14. The “Fundamentalist” Discourse
  15. Accounting for “Fundamentalism” in Serbia
  16. Conclusion
  17. Chapter Two ORTHODOXY AND SERBIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY
  18. Synopsis
  19. Introduction
  20. The “Doctrinal” Content of Orthodoxy
  21. The Creation of Man in the “Image and Likeness of God”
  22. The Triune God–Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
  23. The “Functional”—Cultus—Content of Orthodoxy
  24. The Role of the Orthodox Liturgy
  25. The “Normative” Expressions of Orthodoxy
  26. Baptism and Chrismation
  27. The Eucharist
  28. The Holy Matrimony of Marriage
  29. Orthodox Iconography
  30. Serbian Orthodoxy
  31. The Foundations of the Serbian Orthodoxy
  32. Orthodoxy as the Sacralisation of the Serbian Identity
  33. Krsna Slava
  34. The Religious (Non) Affinity of the Serbs
  35. Conclusion
  36. Chapter Three HOMO SERBICUS
  37. Synopsis
  38. The Moral and Ethical Construction of the Serbian Cosmology
  39. Homo Serbicus (Historical and Territorial Hypostases)
  40. The “Love Ethic”
  41. Honour
  42. The Concept of Heroism
  43. The Concept of Freedom
  44. The Concepts of Justice and Vengeance
  45. Unity in Diversity
  46. The Zadruga
  47. Kumstvo
  48. Homo Serbicus (Balkan Mentality)
  49. Homo Serbicus (Mere Stereotypes?)
  50. Conclusion
  51. Chapter Four THE PURSUIT OF “SECULAR” SALVATION
  52. Synopsis
  53. Vox Populi or Vox Dei?
  54. Serbian Orthodoxy and Yugoslav Communism
  55. Josip Broz Tito
  56. The Serbian Monarchy
  57. The Chetnik Movement
  58. Slobodan Milosevic
  59. Orthodoxy and the Culture of Power in Serbia
  60. Serbian Orthodoxy and Democracy
  61. Conclusion
  62. Chapter Five THE PURSUIT OF “SACRIFICIAL” SALVATION
  63. Synopsis
  64. National Myth(s) and Mythogenesis
  65. The Kosovo Battle (1389)
  66. The Legend of Kosovo
  67. Kosovo: The Continuous Dialogue between the Present and the Past
  68. The Kosovo “Sacrifice”
  69. Conclusion
  70. Chapter Six “TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF”
  71. Synopsis
  72. Homo Homini Lupus
  73. (Instrumental) Violence and Orthodoxy
  74. The Serbian Warrior
  75. The “Distortion” of Brotherhood and Unity
  76. God of Life and Death
  77. Homo et Femina Nervis Laborans (Psychosis)?
  78. Conclusion
  79. Chapter Seven THE BALKAN ORTHODOX COMMONWEALTH
  80. Synopsis
  81. Orthodoxy as the Sacralisation of Serbianhood
  82. The Greek Orthodoxy
  83. The Bulgarian Orthodoxy
  84. The Romanian Orthodoxy
  85. Conclusion
  86. CONCLUSION
  87. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  88. INDEX