Lackenby, Nicholas;
(2024)
Have you visited our monasteries? Serbian monastic heritage as religious infrastructure.
Religion, State and Society
, 52
(2-3)
pp. 176-194.
10.1080/09637494.2024.2357401.
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Abstract
In Serbia, monasteries are shared points of reference, permeating everyday life in banal ways. This contribution considers the extensive network of Serbian monasteries as a form of ‘religious infrastructure’. Monasteries sit in a recursive, mutually formative relationship with ideas about the Serbian collective self. Just as monasteries shape claims about the historical rootedness of the Serbian people, so discourse about Serbdom positions monasteries in particular ways. Proof of monasteries’ encompassing power lies in the fact that monasteries – and ideas about them – allow diverse actors to make different (sometimes contradictory) claims about history, territory, heritage, and sincere faith. In ways that are at once inconspicuous and flagrant, monasteries provide an infrastructure that frames, contains, and compounds ethnic and confessional belonging.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Have you visited our monasteries? Serbian monastic heritage as religious infrastructure |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09637494.2024.2357401 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2024.2357401 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properlycited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) orwith their consent. |
| Keywords: | Heritage, monasteries, peoplehood, recursivity, religious infrastructure, Serbian Orthodox Christianity, Serbia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10194501 |
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