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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... leaders and followers of genocidal movements do not reveal any particular psychological abnormalities.5 They are characterized by banality rather than by demonism. There is a psychological mechanism that makes it possible for large ...
... / and made the army take Communion and prepare.”3 The song then describes the ensuing fierce battle, in which the Serbian army perished together with its leader. Another important folk song about the Kosovo legend is “The.
... leader of the Serbian army at Kosovo, for choosing the heavenly kingdom, even at the cost of defeat and slavery. On the other hand, the most admired hero of the Kosovo cycle—Miloš Obilić—is guided by a paganheroic rather than Christian ...
... leader of a national church. The formation of autocephalous Bulgarian and Serbian churches did not merely imitate the Byzantine state-church relationship. It also had the important political function of strengthening these nations ...
... leadership resides outside the borders of the empire, Ottoman rulers gave greater privileges to the Orthodox than to the Catholic Church. For the same reason, communist regimes put a great deal of pressure on Catholic hierarchies in ...
Contents
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian National Identity | |
Pagan War | |
A Vicious Circle of Lies and Fears | |
The Outsiders MythCalculations | |
Conclusion | |