Nationalisation of the Sacred : : Orthodox Historiography, Memory, and Politics in Montenegro / / Mihai Dragnea and Emil Hilton Saggau.

• VerfasserIn: Dragnea, Mihai,; Saggau, Emil Hilton, 1988-
• TeilnehmendeR: Saggau, Emil Hilton, 1988-
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Peter Lang Publishing Inc.,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: South-East European History 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

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.