eprintid: 10154564
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datestamp: 2022-08-26 09:18:34
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creators_name: Aleksov, B
creators_name: Lackenby, N
title: Orthodoxy in Serbia: between its public image and the everyday religiosity of its believers
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: D92
divisions: B03
keywords: Public orthodoxy; liturgical
practice; monasticism; Serbian Orthodox Church; Serbia
note: © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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abstract: This article characterises and contrasts the most visible changes in the Serbian Church’s public role with less visible and analysed trends among its believers. A very tight intertwining of the religious and the political elevated the Serbian Church’s institutional position, secured an unprecedented construction boom, and even influenced some devotional practices of the faithful, especially through victimhood-oriented collective identity building. Yet our research demonstrates the ambiguous impact of these changes on believers, whose lives revolve around the liturgical cycle, fasting, and reverence for monasticism. These differences have already created rifts within the Church. In a trend that it is unrecognised by secular observers, it seems that some believers are increasingly differentiating between their ethnic and confessional identities.
date: 2022-08-03
date_type: published
publisher: Informa UK Limited
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1972750
doi: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829
lyricists_name: Aleksov, Bojan
lyricists_id: BALEK43
actors_name: Flynn, Bernadette
actors_id: BFFLY94
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church
issn: 1474-225X
citation:        Aleksov, B;    Lackenby, N;      (2022)    Orthodoxy in Serbia: between its public image and the everyday religiosity of its believers.                   International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church        10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829>.    (In press).    Green open access   
 
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