Hi everyone.
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new book that has recently been published by Bojan Aleksov on the Nazarenes in Austro-Hungary and Serbia. The book is called: "Religious Dissent between the Modern and the National Nazarenes in Hungary and Serbia 1850-1914". What follows is the publisher's description of the book:
The study portrays the origins and the spreading of the Nazarenes the first Protestant Serbs in South Hungary and Serbia as an indicator of social change among the Serbian people, whose demands and needs the Orthodox Church had failed to meet. In order to account for the success of Nazarene missionaries it also illuminates the strategies employed by Nazarenes in expanding and maintaining their communities which range from communalism, group mores and practices, internal economic organization of the Nazarene communities and their attitude towards economic change, and finally the appeal of the Nazarene faith and worship. Looking at the social, economic, cultural and historical motives of conversions to Nazarenes, it examines in depth the Nazarenes challenge to the Serbian Orthodox Church and the latters belated response in the form of the so-called re-Orthodoxization (in line with newly invented tradition of the Serbian version of Orthodox Christianity Svetosavlje) and the development of the mass Bogomoljci movement with its implications for the development of the Serbian national self-identification observed in the changes of the notions of Church, religion and piety, which finally (during the interwar period) resulted in a discourse that combined and fused the nation and the Orthodox Church and closed the long lasting and by historians mostly ignored gap between the Church and the Serbian people/nation.
The book can be purchased through Harrassowitz Verlag through their website. The main link for the books itself is here. I haven't ordered or read this book yet, as I just found out about its release. I've enjoyed reading Bojan's previous papers and booklets, as we've communicated and exchanged information and documents for many years now. While I do not agree with every viewpoint he holds, Bojan has had the good fortune to have access to many original historical documents that were formerly unavailable until the communist's downfall in the former Yugoslavia. I hope to get my copy of his new book soon, and I will let you know once I've received it and checked it out.
I just wanted to let everyone know that there is a new book that has recently been published by Bojan Aleksov on the Nazarenes in Austro-Hungary and Serbia. The book is called: "Religious Dissent between the Modern and the National Nazarenes in Hungary and Serbia 1850-1914". What follows is the publisher's description of the book:
The study portrays the origins and the spreading of the Nazarenes the first Protestant Serbs in South Hungary and Serbia as an indicator of social change among the Serbian people, whose demands and needs the Orthodox Church had failed to meet. In order to account for the success of Nazarene missionaries it also illuminates the strategies employed by Nazarenes in expanding and maintaining their communities which range from communalism, group mores and practices, internal economic organization of the Nazarene communities and their attitude towards economic change, and finally the appeal of the Nazarene faith and worship. Looking at the social, economic, cultural and historical motives of conversions to Nazarenes, it examines in depth the Nazarenes challenge to the Serbian Orthodox Church and the latters belated response in the form of the so-called re-Orthodoxization (in line with newly invented tradition of the Serbian version of Orthodox Christianity Svetosavlje) and the development of the mass Bogomoljci movement with its implications for the development of the Serbian national self-identification observed in the changes of the notions of Church, religion and piety, which finally (during the interwar period) resulted in a discourse that combined and fused the nation and the Orthodox Church and closed the long lasting and by historians mostly ignored gap between the Church and the Serbian people/nation.
The book can be purchased through Harrassowitz Verlag through their website. The main link for the books itself is here. I haven't ordered or read this book yet, as I just found out about its release. I've enjoyed reading Bojan's previous papers and booklets, as we've communicated and exchanged information and documents for many years now. While I do not agree with every viewpoint he holds, Bojan has had the good fortune to have access to many original historical documents that were formerly unavailable until the communist's downfall in the former Yugoslavia. I hope to get my copy of his new book soon, and I will let you know once I've received it and checked it out.
so that he can write a review of the book and post it online! 
