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Remembering Suffering and Resistance

Karin Roginer Hofmeister
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Remembering Suffering and Resistance
Subtitel
Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
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€ 129,00 excl. BTW
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9789633867433
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282
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Engels
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15.2 x 22.9 cm
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CEU Memory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe
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Sociale en Politieke Wetenschappen
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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
Religion and Church
Religion in Late Modernity
Religion and Churches in the Public Sphere
Religion and Constructing Identity, Memory, and Narrative
Theoretical Synthesis: Between Religion and Public Memory

Chapter Two. The SPC within the Mnemonic Fields in Post-2000 Serbia
Frames of Mnemonic Fields in Post-2000 Serbia
The Post-socialist Frames of Mnemonic Fields
The Post-conflict Frames of Mnemonic Fields
The Post-secular Frames of Mnemonic Fields
The SPC as a Mnemonic Agent in the Realms of Overlapping Frames
The SPC within the Post-socialist Frames of Remembering
The SPC within the Post-conflict Frames of Remembering
The SPC within the Post-secular Frames of Remembering
Features of Mnemonic Fields in Post-2000 Serbia
The Typology of Mnemonic Agents and Their Agencies
Mnemonic Agents and Their Agencies in Post-2000 Serbia
The SPC in the Mnemonic Interplays of Post-2000 Serbia

Chapter Three. Memory of Suffering
Liturgical Remembrance
Beyond Liturgical Remembrance
Institutionalizing Mnemonic Action: The Jasenovac Committee
Interplaying with Other Mnemonic Agents
Framing the Holocaust
Memorialization of Staro Sajmište
Conclusion—Memory of Suffering

Chapter Four. Memory of Resistance
Liturgical Remembrance
Beyond Liturgical Remembrance
Narrating World War II Resistance
Interplaying with Other Mnemonic Agents
Memorial Complex at Ravna Gora
Conclusion—Memory of Resistance

Conclusion
Summary
List of References
Index

Karin Roginer Hofmeister

Remembering Suffering and Resistance

Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church

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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 Milošević 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.

Auteur

Karin Roginer Hofmeister

Karin Roginer Hofmeister is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in Holocaust Studies at the Institute of International Studies at Charles University in Prague, and coordinator of the Malach Centre for Visual History. She holds Ph.D. in Area Studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University. She also studied at the SSEES, UCL, and the University in Belgrade. Her research focuses on contemporary history in Southeast Europe, especially on religious institutions and their engagement in re-constructing collective memory and identity. 

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