Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism

The Case of Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States

Buch | Softcover

223 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-50337-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.

Keith Tester, University of Hull, UK Gorana Ognjenovi?, University of Oslo, Norway Jasna Jozeli?, University of Oslo, Norway Marjan Smrke, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia Nena Mo?nik, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia Frano Prcela, University of Münster Mainz & IMDC Berlin, Germany Adam Lindhagen, University of Stockholm, Sweden Amra Hadzimuhamedovi?, Commission to Preserve National Monuments, Bosnia-Herzegovina Filip Ejdus, University in Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Subotic Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA Zilka Spahi? Harvard Divinity School USA; IUS, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Contents Foreword - A Note on Sociology; Keith Tester Preface; Gorana Ognjenovi? and Jasna Jozeli? 1. Introduction; Gorana Ognjenovi? and Jasna Jozeli? 2. Quo vadis Vlachs? Project C?arnojevic? into the 21st century; Gorana Ognjenovi? 3. Ethno-religious Mimicryin the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Marjan Smrke 4. Religious Symbology and Mythology in Sexual Violence and Rape during the Conflict 1992-1995; Nena Mo?nik 5. The Catholic Pledge in the Croatian Identity; Frano Prcela 6. Political Control and Religious Life at Narona: A Case Ctudy from Antiquity; Adam Lindhagen 7. Three Receptions of Bosnian Identity as Reflected in Religious Architecture; Amra Hadžimuhamedovi? 8. Kosovo as Serbia's Sacred Space: Governmentality, Pastoral Power and Sacralization of Territories; Filip Ejdus and Jelena Suboti? 9. Nation, Religion and Gender; Zilka Spahi? Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.08.2016
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 223 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Balkan • Byzantine • Catholic Church • Faith • Genocide • Nation • national heritage • Nationalism • Orthodox Church • politicization of history • politicization of religion • Religion • schovinism • South East Europe • State • Symbolism • Tito • Transition • war and sexual violence • Yugoslavia
ISBN-10	1-349-50337-1 / 1349503371
ISBN-13	978-1-349-50337-7 / 9781349503377
Zustand	Neuware