“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html · Biography - hagiography · 5 titles in 1 volume : o Serbia in Light and Darkness; o The Pyramid of Paradise; o The Religious Spirit of the Slavs; o The Agony of the Church; o Prayers by the Lake ... The aim of this volume is to give to the English-speaking people some glimpses into the past struggles, sufferings and hopes of the Serbian nation. I have tried to describe the Serbian life in light, in its peace, its peaceful work, its songs and prayers; in darkness, in its slavery, its sins, its resistance to evil and battle for freedom.

Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović (1881–1956) is arguably one the most controversial figures in contemporary Serbian national culture. Having been vilified by the former Yugoslav Communist authorities as a fascist and an antisemite, this Orthodox Christian thinker has over the past two decades come to be regarded in Serbian society as the most important religious person since medieval times and an embodiment of the authentic Serbian national spirit. Velimirović was formally canonised by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2003. In this book, Jovan Byford charts the posthumous transformation of Velimirović from 'traitor' to 'saint' and examines the dynamics of repression and denial that were used to divert public attention from the controversies surrounding the bishop's life, the most important of which is his antisemitism. Byford offers the first detailed examination of the way in which an Eastern Orthodox Church manages controversy surrounding the presence of antisemitism within its ranks and he considers the implications of the continuing reverence of Nikolaj Velimirović for the persistence of antisemitism in Serbian Orthodox culture and in Serbian society as a whole. This book is based on a detailed examination of the changing representation of Bishop Nikolaj Velimirović in the Serbian media and in commemorative discourse devoted to him. The book also makes extensive use of exclusive interviews with a number of Serbian public figures who have been actively involved in the bishop’s rehabilitation over the past two decades.

The Agony of the Church (1917) is a lengthy essay by Nikolaj Velimirović concerning the spiritual emergency of the European church brought on by the First World War. Excerpt: "The Church is a drama. She represents the greatest drama in the world's history, yea, she personates the whole of the world's history. She originated in an astounding personal drama. Humanly speaking, in the life of Jesus Christ during the three years of His public work there was more that was dramatic, from an outside and inside point of view, than in the lives of all other founders of religion taken together. And speaking from a soteriological and theological point of view, His life-drama had a cosmic greatness, involving heaven and earth and both ends of the world's history. Wonderful was the life of Buddha, but his teaching was still more wonderful than his life. Very striking was the life of Mohammed, the life of a pious and romantic statesman, but his work quickly overgrew his personality. Five years after Mohammed's death, Islam numbered more followers than Christianity five hundred years after Golgotha. But the life-drama of Jesus was and still is reckoned as the most marvellous aspect of Christianity: not His teaching or His work, but His life."

“Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. https://vidjambov.blogspot.com/2023/01/book-inventory-vladimir-djambov-talmach.html Accepting the Christian faith, Vladimir knew that he accepts the most difficult of the three faiths offered to him. Chroniclers report that he questioned for a long time before he decided. He knew that the Christian faith means the way of the Cross and that the way of the Cross means, first of all, to put an end to his bad past, to the rags of old habits, to his old soul. And he knew that it would not be enough just to pull ropes from the Kiev hill of Perun and drown him in the Dnieper, but that he himself and every subject would have to throw all idols out of his soul. But Slavic idols - alas! - like any idols, they were dreamed up by earthly gods, the greatest insignificance under the loudest names, stupid and dumb agents of the earthly kingdom, tied human souls to the earth, promising only the earthly kingdom, earthly deceptive happiness, which no one had ever seen. Slavic idolatry, centered in Kiev, made the Slavs the wildest people of Europe. What Vladimir was in the pagans, such were the Russian Slavs: a gloomy horde of robbers, robbers, gluttons, drunkards, destroyers who burned widows alive, who sacrificed slain babies to their idols. It was fear and awe for cultural peoples, especially for the most cultural of them - Byzantium. The greatest pleasure for the Slavs was the destruction of what they did not create, and the robbery of what they did not earn. What power under the sun could create a people from this gloomy horde, tame it, regenerate, transform, resurrect and give it a holy soul instead of a beast soul? The only power of the faith of Christ could accomplish this unearthly miracle with the Russians. She [faith] made Vladimir the Lamb from Vladimir the Wolf. A recent trickster, Vladimir dismissed his harem and began to live chastely. Vladimir - a glutton and a drunkard began to fast, and to fast to exhaustion, - he, laughing at the Islam faith, when he heard that it forbids pork and wine! Vladimir the bloodsucker began to go around hospitals and prisons, giving alms and comfort. Vladimir, a night player and a merry fellow, began to spend nights in tearful prayers, in kneeling and bowing, in meditation on the judgment of God and his soul. Vladimir the shameless became more bashful than the girl. Vladimir the executioner turned into a meek, repentant and gracious Samaritan. In a word, Vladimir the idolater was transformed into a Christian saint. As if on a certain wall the image of a demon was erased and they wrote an angel! A much greater miracle than a butterfly emerging from a caterpillar!

A valuable and objective reassessment of the role of Serbia and Serbs in WWII. Today, Serbian textbooks praise the Chetniks of Draža MIhailovi? and make excuses for the collaboration of Milan Nedi?'s regime with the Axis. However, this new evaluation shows the more complex and controversial nature of the political alliances during the period.

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.

This volume offers a comprehensive selection of texts from the world's major religions on the ethical dimensions of war and armed conflict. Despite a considerable rise of interest in Eastern and Western religious teachings on issues of war and peace, the principal texts in which these teachings are expounded have in most cases remained inaccessible to all but a handful of specialists. This is especially true of traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism, where the key authoritative treatments are often embedded in texts (e.g., Koranic jurisprudence, religious epics, or Talmudic commentary) that are not overtly about matters pertaining to the ethics of war, thus requiring a difficult process of interpretation and selection, and for which English translations frequently do not exist. Topical and timely for today's debates in the public arena and essential reading for students of religious ethics and the relationship between religion and politics, this book aims to give the reader a proper knowledge of the textual traditions that inform the key struggles over issues of peace and security, identity and land.

This is a bibliography of books published in English between 1914 and 1987, on the First World War. There are approximately 6800 entries, indexed by author or title, listed under 350 subject headings. The subject headings range, in alphabetical order, from addresses and speeches to Zimmerman. Each entry gives bibliographical details where possible, any changes in title between United Kingdom and United States of America editions and cross-references to other relevant subject headings. For quick reference there is an index of authors and an index of subject headings. While this bibliography aims to be a reference work for the scholar and researcher, it is also intended to be for more general use.