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Publications

 

ARTICLES

 

  • International (peer-reviewed) journals

 

  • Sremac, S. (2014). Conversion as testimony: Reliability, objectivity and other methodological challenges. Facta Universitatis: Series Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History, 13 (2), 65-76.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2014). “Faith, hope and love: A narrative theological analysis of recovering drug addicts’ conversion testimonies”. Practical Theology 7(1), 34-49.

 

  • Sremac, S., & R. R. Ganzevoort. (2013). “Addiction and spiritual transformation: An empirical study on narratives of recovering addicts’ conversion testimonies in Dutch and Serbian contexts”. Archive for the Psychology of Religion 35 (3), 399-435.

 

  • National (peer-reviewed) journals

 

  • Sremac, S., & Brnčić., J. (2013). “Naracija, zavisnost i obraćenje: konfiguracija i rekonfiguracija sopstva“[Narration, addiction and conversion: Configuration and reconfiguration of the self]. Diskursi 3 (4), 153-168.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2012). “Kritički pregled interdisciplinarnih istraživanja religijske konverzije: Teorijski i metodološki pristupi“ [A Critical Review of Interdisciplinary Study of Religious Conversion: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches]. Antropologija 12 (10), 107-127.

 

  • Trudić., A. & Sremac., S. (2012). “Praktična-empirijska teologija kao teorija religijske prakse: Predlog za upotrebu narativnog intervjua u ispitivanju glosolalije“ [Practical-empirical theology as a theory of religious practice: A proposal for the use of narrative interview in the study of glossolalia]. Religija i tolerancija, 9 (16), 363-379.

 

  • Koopmans., F., & Sremac., S. (2011). “Addiction and autonomy: Are addicts autonomous?”. Nova prisutnost, 9 (1), 171-188.

 

  • Sremac, S., & Mijić., E. (2011). „Protestantska etika kao model lečenja: uloga religioznosti i/ili duhovnosti u rehabilitaciji zavisnika na primeru Reto centra” [Protestant ethics as a model for treatment: the role of religiosity and/or spirituality in the rehabilitation of heroin addicts in the case of the Reto-center] Teme, 3 (35), 969-991.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2011). “Testimonio kao umjetnost i strategija narativnog identiteta: Ricouerova hermeneutika svjedočanstva i pitanje konverzije bivših ovisnika„ [Testimonio as an art and a strategy of narrative identity: Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of testimony and the question of conversion for recovering drug addicts]. Bogoslovska smotra 81(2), 377-395.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2010). “Addiction, narrative and spirituality: Theoretical-methodological approaches and overview”. Religion and Tolerance 8 (14), 255-273.

 

  • Sremac, S. & Radić, T. (2010). “Bio sam navučen: Tranformativno iskustvo bivših zavisnika: Uloga narativnog identiteta, religijske konverzije i socijalne podrške u procesu rehabilitacije [I Was Hooked on it: Transformative Experience of Recovering Drug Addicts: The Role of Identity Narrative, Religious Conversion and Social Support in the Recovery Process]. Antropologija 10 (8), 49-71.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2010). “Converting into a new reality: Social constructionism, practical theology and conversion”. Nova Prisutnost 8, 7-27.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2009). “Integrativni pristup praktičnoj teologiji: socijalna konstrukcija konverzije“ [An Integrative Approach to Practical Theology: The Social Construction of Conversion]. Kairos Evanđeoski Teološki Časopis, 3 (2), 339-364.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2009). “Voices from a junky limbo and the heaven afterwards: Proposal for a narrative investigation of addicts’ conversion testimonies”. Religion and Tolerance, 7 (11), 73-90.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2008). “Theoretical approaches to coping with crises and conversion”. Religion and Tolerance, 6 (10), 55-70.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2008). “Protestantsko obraćenje i pravoslavno preumljenje: uticaj obraćenja/preumljenja na promenu ličnosti [Protestant conversion and the Eastern Orthodox metanoia]. Kairos Evanđeoski Teološki Časopis, 2(2), 283-296.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2008). “Psihološki aspekti religijskog iskustva i pitanje konverzije“ [Psychological aspects of religious experience and the question of conversion]. Religion and Tolerance, 5 (9), 71-87.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2006). “Koinonia kao osnovna karakteristika Ecclesie“ [Koinonia as the main characteristic of ecclesia]. Religija i tolerancija, 5, 29-39.

 

 

  • Non-peer-reviewed (national) journals

 

  • Sremac, S. (2007). “Svetopisamska paradigma obraćenja“ [The biblical paradigm of conversion]. Teološki časopis, 7, 104-121.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2006). “Biblijsko-teološka promišljanja o raspravi između ikonodula i ikonoklasta” [The biblical-theological exploration of the dispute between Iconodules and Iconoclasts]. Teološki časopis, 5-6, 49-67.

 

 

 

 

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

 

 

  • Peer-reviewed book chapters

 

  • Sremac, S. (2015). “‘With God’s help I’ll beat this disease’: Addiction, crisis of self-narrative and spiritual transformation” in: One God, Many Stories (Münster: LIT Verlag) (eds. P. Couture, R. Mager, P. McCarroll & N. Wigg-Stevenson) (accepted in print). 

 

  • Sremac, S., Ganzevoort, R. R. (2015). “Introduction: The interplay of Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe” in: Gods, Gays, and Governments: Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe (Brill: Leiden, Boston) (eds. S. Sremac & R. R. Ganzevoort) (in print).

 

  • Sremac, S., Popov-Momčinović, Z., Jovanović, M., Topić, M. (2015). “For the Sake of the Nations: Media, homosexuality and religio-sexual nationalisms in the Post-Yugoslav Space”. In: Gods, Gays, and Governments: Religious and Sexual Nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe. Brill: Leiden, Boston. (eds. Sremac, S & Ganzevoort, R.R (in print).

 

  • Valić-Nedeljković., Ganzevoort, R. R., Sremac, S. (2015). “The patriarch and the pride: Discourse analysis of the online public response to the Serbian Orthodox Church condemnation of the 2012 gay pride.” In Lived Religion and the Politics of (In)Tolerance (eds. R. R. Ganzevoort & S. Sremac). (accepted in print).

 

  • Ganzevoort, R. R., Sremac, S. (2015). Trauma, masculinity, and identity: The case of war related male rape. In: Springer Handbook of Trauma and Culture, New York, Springer (eds. Yochai Ataria, David Gurevitz, HavivaPedaya, Yuval Neria (submitted).

 

  • Topić, M., & Sremac, S.  (2015). “Former Nazi in united Europe? Significance, meaning and expressions of radical groups in Croatia.”  in: Wilson, A. F.; Lee, J. (eds.) Extremism, Nationalism and Transgression, (London: Bloomsbury). (accepted in print).

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  • Berg van der, M., Bos, J.D., Jovanovic, M., Derks, M., Ganzevoort, R.R & Korte, A.M., Sremac, S. (2014).”Religion, homosexuality, and contested social orders in the Netherlands, the Western Balkans,

     and Sweden” in: Religion in Times of Crisis (Leiden: Brill) (eds. Gladys Ganiel, Christophe Monnot & Heidemarie Winkel), 116-134. 

 

Sremac, S., Popov-Momčinović, Z., Jovanović, M., Topić, M. (2014). “Eros, Agape i Ethnos: Predlog za kritičku analizu javnog diskursa o religiji, homoseksualnosti i nacionalizmu u kontekstu Zapadnog Balkana [Eros, Agape and Ethnos: A proposal for critical public discourse analysis of religion, homosexuality and nationalism in the media context of the Western Balkans] in: The Role of Media in Normalizing Relations in the Western Balkans. Novi Sad: University of Novi Sad Press (eds. Valić-Nedeljković, D., Sremac, S., Knežević, N. & Gruhonjić, D.), 247-269.

 

  • Topić, M. & Sremac, S. (2014). “Introduction: Europe as a multiple modernity” in: Europe as a Multiple Modernity: Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (eds. Topić, M. & Sremac, S),  1-20.

 

  • Sremac, S. & Topić, M. (2014). “Are contested identities in the public sphere sacred or secular?” in: Europe as a Multiple Modernity: Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (eds. Topić, M. & Sremac, S), 358-361.

 

  • Ocokoljić, V., Sremac, S., T. Cvetkovski. (2014). “Media representation of Serbian and Croatian postwar identities: A selected examples from Serbian and BBC News” in: Europe as a Multiple Modernity: Multiplicity of Religious Identities and Belonging. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, (eds. Topić, M. & Sremac, S), 339-357.

 

  • Knežević N. & Sremac, S. (2014). “Uvod: Uloga religija u procesima tranzicione pravde” [Introduction: The role of religion in transitional justice processes] in: Religija, odgovornost i tranziciona pravda [Religion, Responsibility and Transitional Justice]. Novi Sad – Belgrade: CIRPD (eds. Knežević, N. Pantelić, B. & Sremac, S.), 7-11.

 

  • Sremac, S., & R., R. Ganzevoort. (2013). “Testimony and transformation: Addiction, meaning and spiritual change” in: Constructs of Meaning and Religious Transformation: Current Issues in the Psychology of Religion. Vienna University Press, Wien, 223-238. (ed. Herman Westerink).

 

  • Beuk, S., & Sremac, S. (2013). “Od krsta ka hermeneutici tela” [From the cross to the hermeneutics of the body] in: Religija, mediji i nasilje [Religion, Media and Violence], Otačnik, Beograd, 143-147 (eds. Sremac S., Knežević, N., & Valić-Nedeljković, D).

 

  • Sremac, S. & Beuk, S. (2012). “Religija, duhovnost i posttraumatsko sećanje” [Religion, Spirituality and Post-traumatic Memories] in: Opasna sećanja i pomirenje [Dangerous Memories and Reconciliation], Ex libris, Rijeka, (eds. Sremac, S., Knežević N., & Grozdanov Z), 267-284.

 

  • Ocokoljić, V., Sremac, S. & Djajić-Horvat., A. (2011). „Naïve art as resource of cultural tourism in Banat“ in: Strengthening the Competitiveness and Economy Bonding of Historical Banat – SCEBB, Belgrade, Megatrend University, 115-121.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2011). “The Dark Side of the Spoon: Narrating and Reconstructing the Self from Addiction Experience” in: Antropologija, religije i alternativne religije: Kultura identiteta, Beograd, Genaloški centar za etnologiju i antropologiju Filozofskog fakulteta u Beogradu, 123-155. (ed. Danijel Sinani).

 

  • Sremac, S., Beuk, S. & Ocokoljić, V. (2010). “Religija, mediji i kultura: Medijizacija religije i/ili religizacija medija [Religion, media and culture: mediatization of religion]” in: Religijska imaginacija i savremeni mediji: Medijatizacija religije i/ili religizacija medija, [Religious Imagination and Contemporary Media] CEIR, Novi Sad, (eds. Kuburić Z., Sremac, S. & Beuk,. S), 19-35.

 

       Reprint in: 8(14). 2010, 423-436.

 

  • Sremac, S. & Beuk, S. (2010). “Šta ima zajedničko Holivud sa Jerusalimom? Film, teologija i religijsko iskustvo” [What has Hollywood to do with Jerusalem? Film, Theology and Religious Experience] in: Religijska imaginacija i savremeni mediji: Medijatizacija religije i/ili religizacija medija, [Religious Imagination and Contemporary Media] CEIR, Novi Sad, (eds. Kuburić Z., Sremac, S. & Beuk,. S), 197-207.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2009). “Socijalna konstrukcija konverzije: primer narativne analize svedočanstva konverzije kod bivših zavisnika” [The Social Construction of Conversion: Narrative Analyses of the Conversion Testimonies of Former Drug Addicts] Konverzija i kontekst, (eds. Kuburić Z. & Sremac, S), 75-103.

 

  • Non-refereed book chapters

 

  • Sremac., S. (2009). “Teologija obraćenja u svehrišćanskoj tradiciji” [Theology of Conversion in Christian Tradition] in: Ekumenski zbornik: EHO, 130-144.

 

  • Sremac, S. (2008). “Da svi budu (za)jedno: koinonia kao temelj i kritika hrišćanske teologije” [That They May Be One: Koinonia As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology] in: Ekumenski zbornik: EHO, 88-91.

 

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