Introduction
Materials used in this study
The life of Nikolaj Velimirović and his changing public image, 1945-2003
Denigration and marginalization : Velimirović's status in post-war Yugoslavia
Apotheosis and widespread admiration : Velimirović's status today
Collective remembering and collective forgetting : memory of Nikolaj Velimirović and the repression of controversy
The discursive dynamic of social forgetting : repression as replacement
Velimirović in Dachau : "martyrdom" as a replacement myth
The martyrdom myth in context : the narrative of Velimirović's suffering and the rise Serbian nationalism
Remembering in order to forget : the martyrdom myth and repression
The dynamic of everyday forgetting : continuity and the "routinization" of repression
From repression to denial : responses of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accusations of antisemitism
Discourse, moral accountability, and the denial of prejudice
"Serbs have never hated the Jews" : literal denial of antisemitism
"Parrots," "idiots," and "the mummies of reason" : denial and offensive rhetoric
Comparing Serbs and Croats and the rhetoric of "competitive martyrdom" : comparative denial of antisemitism
National self-glorification in a historical context
Denial of antisemitism and the distancing from "extremism"
"We are not antisemites, but
" : denial and the rhetoric of disclaimers
"He was merely quoting the Bible!" : denial of Velimirović's antisemitism
Rising above the criticisms : refusal to engage in controversy as a form of denial
"Tiny mosquitoes" and the mighty "eagle" : who has the right to remember Nikolaj Velimirović?
The letter from "a Jewish woman" : Bishop Nikolaj as the savior of Jews
The two kinds of antisemitism : the rhetoric of interpretative denial
Repeating the word of God : authority of the Gospels and the reification of antisemitic discourse
"Then we are all antisemites!" : "anti-Judaism" and Orthodox Christian identity
Questionable boundaries between anti-Judaism and antisemitism
Deicidal justification of Jewish suffering : the Holocaust as divine retribution
Antisemitism as prophecy : social construction of Velimirović's sanctity
The first stage of the campaign for canonization : the making of a religious "cult"
Canonization in the Orthodox Church and the need for divine confirmation of sanctity
Finding the "right" miracle : incorruptibility of remains and miraculous icons
The bishop who came "face to face with the living God" : Velimirović and the miracle of epiphany
Velimirović as a "prophet" : the construction of the "Serbian Jeremiah".