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.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Orthodoxy in Serbia: between its public image and the everyday religiosity of its believers |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1474225X.2022.2101829 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | Public orthodoxy; liturgical practice; monasticism; Serbian Orthodox Church; Serbia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > SSEES UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10154564 |
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