<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The Serbian Orthodox Church has been described in scholarship as having had a significant impact onto the social and political life of Serbia, especially since the wars of the nineties. With the coming of the age of the Internet and social science automation, however, more options have gradually become available to researchers in the recent years. For this reason, this article will tackle the official rhetoric of the Serbian Orthodox Church in relation to the sociopolitical with the assistance of social science automation. Forming an examination via the methodological lens of Operational Code Analysis, this article delves into the Church’s discourse on Kosovo, via heavy vetting of all official statements given on the website of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It also expands upon the initial methodology – Operational Code Analysis – to an analysis of an <italic>institution with a uniform discourse,</italic> which has so far not seen light in scholarly production.</p></abstract>

The Serbian Orthodox Church has been described in scholarship as having had a significant impact onto the social and political life of Serbia, especially since the wars of the nineties. With the coming of the age of the Internet and social science automation, however, more options have gradually become available to researchers in the recent years. For this reason, this article will tackle the official rhetoric of the Serbian Orthodox Church in relation to the sociopolitical with the assistance of social science automation. Forming an examination via the methodological lens of Operational Code Analysis, this article delves into the Church’s discourse on Kosovo, via heavy vetting of all official statements given on the website of the Serbian Orthodox Church. It also expands upon the initial methodology – Operational Code Analysis – to an analysis of an institution with a uniform discourse, which has so far not seen light in scholarly production.

The Operational Code Analysis of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Official Political Discourse on Kosovo (2008-2019)

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The Serbian Orthodox Church has been described in scholarship as having had a significant impact onto the social and political life of Serbia, especially since...

The Operational Code Analysis of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Official Political Discourse on Kosovo (2008-2019)

Published Online: Aug 08, 2019

Page range: 250 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/seeur-2019-0014

Keywords
Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbia, Kosovo, Operational Code Analysis, social science automation

© 2019 Srđan Mladenov Jovanović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Operational Code Analysis of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s Official Political Discourse on Kosovo (2008-2019)

Published Online: Aug 08, 2019

Page range: 250 - 270

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/seeur-2019-0014

KeywordsSerbian Orthodox Church, Serbia, Kosovo, Operational Code Analysis, social science automation

© 2019 Srđan Mladenov Jovanović et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbia, Kosovo, Operational Code Analysis, social science automation