
Remembering Suffering and Resistance
Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
- 280 pages
- English
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Remembering Suffering and Resistance
Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
About this book
Assessing issues related to the Orthodox Church from an academic, secular point of view is a sensitive matter. However, by tracing and interpreting the engagement of the Serbian Church with the memory of Serbian heroic victimhood in World War II through a kind of "methodological agnosticism, " this volume has managed to tackle the subtle topic in a very delicate and value-neutral way. Arguing that the search for a collective memory is particularly urgent in the face of societal uncertainty and that religious institutions often use their memory potential to reaffirm their public relevance, the book examines the motivations, forms, strategies, and outcomes of a wide range of mnemonic activities the Serbian Orthodox Church engaged in following the upheavals caused by the collapse of Yugoslav socialism, the violent dissolution of the country, and the fall of the Miloševi? regime. These activities, taking place within the memory fields framed by the post-socialist, post-conflict, and post-secular horizons, took liturgical and non-liturgical forms, often involving a hybrid fusion of the two. As a result of this mnemonic endeavor, the author argues, the Church was successful in reasserting its power and legitimacy in the public sphere of post-2000 Serbia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front matter
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Periodization
- The SPC as a Collective Actor
- Sources and Methodology
- Structure and Contribution to the State of the Art
- Chapter One: Dynamics Between Religion and Memory in Late Modernity
- Chapter Two: The SPC within the Mnemonic Fields in Post-2000 Serbia
- Chapter Three: Memory of Suffering
- Chapter Four: Memory of Resistance
- Conclusion
- Summary
- List of References
- Index
- Back cover