Distinguishing "anti-Judaism" from "anti-Semitism"
Recent championing of Serbian Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20318435 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jovan Byford (0000-0002-3493-1394, School of Social Sciences Nottingham Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 163-192 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologija (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0318 • E-ISSN: 2406-0712 |
| Publisher | National Library of Serbia (PUBLISHER • RS) |
| DOI | 10.2298/soc0602163b |
| OpenAlex | W2023458888 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the continuity in the ideology of the Eastern European far right has been apparent in the extent to which the restoration of right-wing ideas was accompanied with widespread rewriting of history and the rehabilitation of contentious historical figures, many of whom, 40 years earlier, had attained notoriety for their antisemitism and fascist and pro-Nazi leanings. This article examines a specific example of postcommunist revisionism in Serbian society. The principal aim of the article is to explore the rhetoric of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic (1880 - 1956), a controversial Serbian Orthodox Christian philosopher whose writing includes overtly antisemitic passages, and elucidate the strategies that his supporters have been deploying to promote him and maintain his popularity while countering objections of antisemitism. The paper focuses on the way in which the controversy surrounding Velimirovic?s antisemitism was managed around the time of his formal canonisation in May 2003. The author argues that unlike the Roman Catholic and Protestant Christian denominations, eastern churches, including the Serbian Orthodox Church, have as yet not formally addressed from a doctrinal or ecclesiological perspective the problem of Christian antisemitism. Due to the unwavering traditionalism justifications and denials of antisemitism must be constructed in such a way that they present the bishop?s views as consistent with the prevailing secular norms of ethnic tolerance
Antisemitism · Christianity · Ideology · Judaism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Rhetoric · Serbian · Sociology · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |