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Nationalisation of the Sacred : Orthodox Historiography, Memory, and Politics in Montenegro
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)ISBN:- 9781433197420
- 281.9497
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Summary: The Eastern Orthodox Churches in post-communist Eastern Europe are embroiled in long-running conflicts over ownership of territory, saints, sites, nations, and history. These often violent conflicts reflect political and national rivalries, most explicitly in former Yugoslavia and Ukraine. They are often understood as simplified ethnic-national tensions with religious overtones, but, as this book demonstrates such an assessment overlooks the deeper theological and historiographical framework. Nationalisation of the Sacred offers a detailed analysis of the theological backdrop to these conflicts. It analyses how various strands of Eastern Orthodoxy have adapted to the contemporary political context, a process where history, memory, and politics are transformed to fit the needs of rival nations and churches. The book provides an in-depth analysis of this process and the transformations in church-related conflicts in post-communist Montenegro, where the Serbian Orthodox Church has been pitted against a rival Montenegrin church and Montenegrin government. Additionally the book provides an up-to-date and unique analysis of Eastern Orthodox historiography, modern Serbian theology, religion in Montenegro more broadly, and the roots of the violent clash between Orthodox believers and the Montenegrin government in 2019-2021.Summary: Die orthodoxen Kirchen im postkommunistischen Osteuropa sind in langjährige Konflikte um den Besitz von Territorien, Heiligen, Stätten, Nationen und Geschichte verwickelt. Diese oft gewalttätigen Konflikte spiegeln politische und nationale Rivalitäten wider, am deutlichsten im ehemaligen Jugoslawien und der Ukraine. Sie werden oft als vereinfachte ethnisch-nationale Spannungen mit religiösen Untertönen verstanden, doch wie dieses Buch zeigt, übersieht eine solche Einschätzung den tieferen theologischen und historiografischen Rahmen. „Nationalisation of the Sacred“ bietet eine detaillierte Analyse des theologischen Hintergrunds dieser Konflikte. Es untersucht, wie sich verschiedene Strömungen der orthodoxen Kirche an den zeitgenössischen politischen Kontext angepasst haben – ein Prozess, in dem Geschichte, Erinnerung und Politik den Bedürfnissen rivalisierender Nationen und Kirchen angepasst werden. Das Buch bietet eine eingehende Analyse dieses Prozesses und der Transformationen kirchenbezogener Konflikte im postkommunistischen Montenegro, wo die serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche einer rivalisierenden montenegrinischen Kirche und Regierung gegenübersteht. Darüber hinaus bietet das Buch eine aktuelle und einzigartige Analyse der ostorthodoxen Geschichtsschreibung, der modernen serbischen Theologie, der Religion in Montenegro im weiteren Sinne und der Wurzeln des gewaltsamen Zusammenstoßes zwischen orthodoxen Gläubigen und der montenegrinischen Regierung in den Jahren 2019–2021. [Mit KI übersetzt]PPN: PPN: 1916232078Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Notes on terminology -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- The creation of a new religious and political landscape of Montenegro -- The desecularisation of Yugoslav politics -- The "root" of the rising Serbian nationalism -- The study of the ideology and practice of history writing -- Nationalism and religion: The same order? -- Studies of saints and sites -- Key concepts and sources -- 2 Eastern Orthodoxy in Montenegro and former Yugoslavia -- Slavic migration and medieval churches -- The rise of the Vladikas
The Orthodox Church in independent Montenegro and Yugoslavia before 1989 -- The Serbian Church in Montenegro from 1989 -- The creation of the Montenegrin Church -- Rising conflict between state and church -- Head to head in 2019-2020 -- Challenging the state framework -- 3 The Eastern Orthodox ideology of history writing -- Towards Eastern Orthodox historiographical orders -- The development of state-centred historiography: The Eusebian history of salvation -- The dismantling of a state-centred historiography -- Athanasian historiography today -- 4 The making of Serbian Orthodoxy in history
Njegoš's notion of history and the Divine -- Velimirović and the return to St Sava -- Popović: Orthodoxy beyond the confinement of the state -- Amfilohije and the embodiment of salvation -- 5 Saints and place-making in Montenegro -- The cults of Jovan Vladimir -- The cult of Duklja -- The sainthood of Petar I -- Canonising Petar II: Njegoš -- Saints, neo-martyrs and the forgotten tombs -- The creation of cults -- 6 Outlook on the politics of history writing in Eastern Europe -- North Macedonia: The history of the Archbishopric of Ohrid revisited -- Bulgaria: The homecoming of national neo-martyrs
A final outlook to Ukraine: From brotherhood to division -- History and memory -- 7 Towards a theory of nationalisation of the sacred -- Towards a definition of Orthodox historiographical practice in Montenegro -- Religious ideology -- The history of the saints or the nations? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Series Index
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