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020 $a9789639776159 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBX719.V45$bB93 2008 2004
082 00 $a281.9092$aB$222
100 1 $aByford, Jovan.
245 10 $aDenial and repression of anti-semitism :$bpost-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic /$cJovan Byford.
260 $aBudapest ;$aNew York :$bCentral European University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0805
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- The disputed biography of Nikolaj Velimirovic and his changing public image, 1945-2003 -- Denigration and marginalisation : 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 -- 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 routinisation 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! : the 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 Saviour 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 anti-semities! : anti-Judaism and Orthodox Christian identity -- Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and anti-semitism -- Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering Holocaust as divine retribution -- Anti-semitism 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.
600 10 $aVelimirović, Nikolaj,$d1880-1956.
610 20 $aSrpska pravoslavna crkva$xBishops$vBiography.
610 20 $aOrthodox Eastern Church$zSerbia$xBishops$vBiography.
650 0 $aChristian saints$zSerbia$vBiography.