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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... Church 2 The Encounter with the Turks Ottoman Religious Tolerance The Short-Lived Serbian Empire Resistance and Collaboration 3 Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs The Violent Balkan Highlands The Prince-Bishop's “Song of Horror” The ...
... Serbian historical experience that nourished these myths and contributed to the recent violent attempt to create a Second Serbian Empire: the entwining of church, state, and nation, with a resulting secularization of the first and ...
... Serbian people, that is, their general orientation toward, and in critical situations definite commitment to, the Heavenly Kingdom, and not to ... Orthodox Church's religious function. The unifying topic of chapter 3 is endemic violence in.
... church wrote the most influential and pernicious work of Serbian and Montenegrin literatures: a poem glorifying ... Serbs were an underdeveloped Eastern Orthodox nation submerged in the Ottoman Empire. The differences between the two ...
... Serbs during the eighteenth century, is shown to have provided the elements that transformed traditional tribalism and the church-centered national idea into modern Serbian nationalist ideology. Of particular importance were the ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |