The Church in a Communist State: Justin Popovic (1894–1979) and the Struggle for Orthodoxy in Serbia/Yugoslavia
Justin Popovic (1894–1979) is a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church (henceforth SOC) and one of its most accomplished theologians. He was born in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, into a priestly family, and was given the name Blagoje. Shortly after completing his nine-year education in Belgrade...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 278-299 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche
/ Communism
/ Popović, Blagoe 1894-1979
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IxTheo Classification: | KBK Europe (East) SA Church law; state-church law |
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Summary: | Justin Popovic (1894–1979) is a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church (henceforth SOC) and one of its most accomplished theologians. He was born in the southern Serbian town of Vranje, into a priestly family, and was given the name Blagoje. Shortly after completing his nine-year education in Belgrade, he served as a medic during the First World War. In 1916, Popovic was tonsured as a monk in Shkoder, Albania, taking on the monastic name Justin, after the second-century apologist St. Justin Martyr. Within the same year, he was first transferred to St. Petersburg for further education, and upon the outbreak of... |
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ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csaa033 |