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Balkan idols : religion and nationalism in Yugoslav states
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"Based on a wide range of South Slav sources and previously unpublished, often confidential, documents from communist state archives, as well as on the author's own on-the-ground experience, Balkan...
"Based on a wide range of South Slav sources and previously unpublished, often confidential, documents from communist state archives, as well as on the author's own on-the-ground experience, Balkan Idols explores the political role and influence of Serbian Orthodox, Croatian Catholic, and Yugoslav Muslim religious organizations over the course of the last century. Vjekoslav Perica emphatically rejects the notion that a "clash of civilizations" has played a central role in fomenting aggression. He finds no compelling evidence of an upsurge in religious fervor among the general population. Rather, he concludes, the primary religious players in the conflicts have been activist clergy. This activism, Perica argues, allowed the clergy to assume political power without the accountability faced by democratically elected officials."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Vjekoslav Perica
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- English
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
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- xxvii, 332 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0190287497, 0195174291, 0199834555, 1602565139, 1280481838, 9780195148565, 0195148568, 9786610481835, 1602568898, 0198033893
- OCLC
- ocn191038431, ocm65178154, ocm47658806
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-324) and index.
- 1. Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationhood -- 2. The First Strife: The Crisis of the 1930s, War, and the Cease-Fire of the 1960 -- 3. The Other Serbia: The Serbian Church in the Communist Federation -- 4. The Catholic Church and the Making of the Croatian Nation, 1970-1984 -- 5. The Bosnian Ulema and Muslim Nationalism -- 6. United We Stand, Divided We Fall: The Civil Religion of Brotherhood and Unity -- 7. Mary-making in Herzegovina: From Apparitions to Partitions -- 8. Flames and Shrines: The Serbian Church and Serbian Nationalist Movement in the 1980s -- 9. The Second Strife: Religion as the Catalyst of the Crisis in the 1980s and 1990s -- 10. Religion as Hallmark of Nationhood -- 11. The Twilight of Balkan Idols -- 12. Conclusions
Subjects
- Nationalism -- Yugoslavia -- History -- 20th century.
- Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Srpska pravoslavna crkva -- History -- 20th century.
- Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.
- Nationalism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 20th century.
- Yugoslavia -- Religion.