review
April 2025
The memory politics of the Serbian Church
Review by Sabrina P. Ramet

In Remembering Suffering and Resistance (CEU Press, 2024), Karin Roginer Hofmeister traces the engagement of the Serbian Church with the memory of Serbian heroic victimhood in the Second World War and its reassertion of power in the public sphere in the 2000s. Sabrina P. Ramet writes that Hofmeister’s lucid account shows that the Serbian Orthodox Church remains trapped in traumatic memories which it has helped to shape and preserve, limiting its vision for the future.
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