Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideNYU Press, 1999 M03 1 - 256 pages Traces Serbia's nationalist and expansionist impulses to the legendary battle of Kosovo in 1389 |
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... and the situation in the Catholic world farther west, where the union of Croatia with Hungary and then the multinational Habsburg Empire formed a barrier against Ottoman penetration. Church unity was an important factor in.
... Catholic regions one-third of the youth are religious, one-third atheists, and one-third either passive believers or uncertain. In traditionally Serbian Orthodox regions, by contrast, only 3 percent of the youth felt religious, while 90 ...
... Catholic Croats.”32 The author of a study of tombstone inscriptions in western Serbia points out the Serbian peasants' indifference and even hostility to the church: Although it is an indisputable psychological fact that village folk ...
... Catholic Church. For the same reason, communist regimes put a great deal of pressure on Catholic hierarchies in their countries to sever their ties with the Vatican and establish national churches. A church may not be unhappy with its ...
... Catholic and Protestant countries fighting and dismantling communist regimes. It also explains why one of Stalin's closest associates showed such enthusiasm upon the discovery that a Yugoslav ambassador to the Soviet Union shared the ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |