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review April 2025

The memory politics of the Serbian Church

Review by Sabrina P. Ramet
Three saints depicted on a monastery wall. The fresco is a bit worn, but the three saints are clearly visible. The rest of the fresco is not visible, the stonework of the temple is showing through.
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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