Nationalisation of the Sacred: Orthodox Historiography, Memory, and Politics in Montenegro

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