Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to GenocideHurst, 1999 - 233 pages Heavenly Serbia traces Serbia's expansionist impulses to Serbian national mythology. The dominant myth - that of "Heavenly Serbia" - appeared soon after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389. It attributed the Serb's defeat by the Turks and the loss of the medieval Serbian state to the Serb's preference for moral salvation over military victory. By emphasizing their commitment to the heavenly kingdom and promising an eventual restoration of the Serbian empire, this myth helped the Serbs to bear their centuries-long domination by a foreign power. Though they ultimately shed the Turkish yoke and regained statehood in the nineteenth century, the Serbs, according to Anzulovic, retained this central myth in the form of feelings of superiority to their neighbors, and a sense of destiny ordaining them to become the dominant power in the Balkans. The myth has been perpetuated by political and religious leaders, historians, novelists, and artists, and has found acceptance abroad as well. |
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... moral victory . The legend was gradu- ally expanded to portray people who at every decisive turn in their history opt for the heavenly kingdom by taking the moral high ground . Archimandrate Justin Popović ( 1894–1979 ) , a 12 ...
... moral victory . The legend was gradu- ally expanded to portray people who at every decisive turn in their history opt for the heavenly kingdom by taking the moral high ground . Archimandrate Justin Popović ( 1894–1979 ) , a 12 ...
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... moral standards of most of them would not qualify them as saints . King Milutin ( reigned 1282–1321 ) , for example , a child of two saints- King Stefan Uroš I and his wife , Jelena — and a saint himself , had his son - the future King ...
... moral standards of most of them would not qualify them as saints . King Milutin ( reigned 1282–1321 ) , for example , a child of two saints- King Stefan Uroš I and his wife , Jelena — and a saint himself , had his son - the future King ...
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... moral of the story of Serbia is that a tribalistic catalogu- ing of nations into good and evil , heavenly and demonic is danger- ous because it distorts perception of reality . We must recognize , without falling into the trap of moral ...
... moral of the story of Serbia is that a tribalistic catalogu- ing of nations into good and evil , heavenly and demonic is danger- ous because it distorts perception of reality . We must recognize , without falling into the trap of moral ...
Contents
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Dinaric Highlanders and Their Songs | 45 |
The Dilemmas of Modern Serbian | 69 |
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