Serbian Orthodoxy between traditional and universal values: Discourse analysis of the Journal Orthodoxy

Jovanov, Dejan; Lazar, Zolt

doi:10.5937/socpreg1701135j

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Political and Church structures in modern Serbia are interwoven, the State and Church "are already in an "indissoluble love embrace"" (Jovanović 2018, 39). Although the Church offers itself as a main source of counter-values to the Western, that is European secular and liberal project (Buchenau 2011, 113;Jovanov and Lazar 2017), the Church seems to have realized that being silent on the LGBT issue and, thus, not impeding the State's tactical Europeanization project, is more profitable in a symbolic, as well as, a material sense.…”

Section: The Church"s Realpolitikmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Jovanović

Krstić

2020

fupsphed

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The paper deals with the question of the dynamics of relations between the political power elite, the LGBT population and the Serbian Orthodox Church in the overall context of the Europeanization of Serbia. An insight is provided into the mechanism(s) through which the political elite in Serbia reproduces its dominant position. Serbian society is depicted as a captured one, and this is illustrated by empirical findings from a survey and in-depth interviews. This is followed by a focus on the political elite’s instrumentalization of the issue of sexual freedom in obtaining international support for maintenance of power through “tactical Europeanization”. After this the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church vis-à-vis the state and its alleged support for LGBT issues is considered. The Church seems to have “realized” that being silent on the LGBT issue is more profitable in a symbolic, as well as, in a material sense.

show abstract

Section: The Church"s Realpolitikmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Jovanović

Krstić

2020

fupsphed

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Euroscepticism, Minority Rights, and Identity Politics: The Cases of Croatia and Serbia

Petsinis

2022

Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Serbian Orthodoxy between traditional and universal values: Discourse analysis of the Journal Orthodoxy

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Fellow Travelers From Serbia: LGBT-Identified Persons and the Church in the Process of Europeanization

Euroscepticism, Minority Rights, and Identity Politics: The Cases of Croatia and Serbia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About