Denial and repression of anti-semitism
Subtitle: post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic
By: Jovan Byford.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789639776159
Subjects: Velimirović, Nikolaj, -- 1880-1956; Srpska pravoslavna crkva -- Bishops -- Biography; Orthodox Eastern Church -- Serbia -- Bishops -- Biography; Christian saints -- Serbia -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The disputed biography of Nikolaj Velimirovic and his changing public image, 1945-2003; title: Denigration and marginalisation : Velimirovic's status in post-war Yugoslavia; title: Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirovic's status today; title: Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirovic and the repression of controversy; title: Discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement; title: Velimirovic in Dachau : martyrdom as a replacement myth; title: The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirovic's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism; title: Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression; title: The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the routinisation of repression; title: From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism; title: Discourse, moral accountability and the denial of prejudice; title: Serbs have never hated the Jews : literal denial of antisemitism; title: Parrots, idiots and the mummies of reason : denial and offensive rhetoric; title: Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of competitive martyrdom : comparative denial of antisemitism; title: National self-glorification in a historical context; title: Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from extremism; title: We are not antisemites, but : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers; title: He was merely quoting the Bible! : the denial of Velimirovic's antisemitism; title: Rising above the criticisms : refusal to engage in controversy as a form of denial; title: Tiny mosquitoes and the mighty eagle : who has the right to remember Nikolaj Velimirovic?; title: The letter from a Jewish woman : Bishop Nikolaj as the Saviour of Jews; title: The two kinds of antisemitism : the rhetoric of interpretative denial; title: Repeating the Word of God : authority of the gospels and the reification of antisemitic discourse; title: Then we are all anti-semities! : anti-Judaism and Orthodox Christian identity; title: Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and anti-semitism; title: Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering Holocaust as divine retribution; title: Anti-semitism as prophecy social construction of Velimirovic's sanctity; title: The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious cult; title: Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity; title: Finding the right miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons; title: The bishop who came face to face with the living God : Velimirovic and the miracle of epiphany; title: Velimirovic as a prophet : the construction of the Serbian Jeremiah.