Denial and repression of antisemitism post-communist remembrance of the Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović /
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Materials used in this study
- 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
- 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 Serbian nationalism
- Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression
- The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" 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!" : 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
- 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 antisemites!" : "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity
- Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism
- Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution
- Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović'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" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany
- Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".