1st Edition
Remembering Suffering and Resistance Memory Politics and the Serbian Orthodox Church
By Karin Roginer Hofmeister
Copyright 2024
282 Pages
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Central European University Press
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... Read more
List of Abbreviations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter One Dynamics Between Religion and Memory in Late Modernity, Chapter Two. The SPC within the Mnemonic Fields in Post-2000 Serbia, Chapter Three. Memory of Suffering, Chapter Four. Memory of Resistance, Conclusion, Summary, List of References, Index
Biography
Karin Roginer Hofmeister is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in Holocaust Studies at the Institute of International StudiesatCharles 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.
