Balkan Idols Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States

Name: Balkan Idols Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States
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ISBN: 9780195174298

ISBN-10: 0195174291

ISBN-13: 9780195174298

Edition: 2002

Authors: Vjekoslav Perica

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Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes." A quarter century later, this landscape lay in ruins. In addition to claiming tens of thousands of lives, the former Yugoslavia's four wars ravaged over a thousand religious buildings, many purposefully destroyed by Serbs, Albanians, and Croats alike, providing an apt architectural metaphor for the region's recent history. Rarely has the human impulse toward monocausality--the need for a single explanation--been in greater evidence than in Western attempts to make sense of the country's bloody dissolution. From…

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List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/26/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 8.82" wide x 5.71" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Note on Pronunciation and Foreign Language Terms


Chronology


Balkan Idols



Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationhood



The Crisis of the 1930s, War, and the Cease-Fire of the 1960s



The Serbian Church in the Communist Federation



The Catholic Church and the Making of the Croatian Nation, 1970-1984



The Bosnian Ulema and Muslim Nationalism



The Civil Religion of Brotherhood and Unity



From Apparitions to Partitions



The Serbian Church and Serbian Nationalist Movement in the 1980s



Religion as the Catalyst of the Crisis in the 1980s and 1990s



Religion as Hallmark of Nationhood



The Twilight of Balken Idols



Conclusions


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index