Synopses & Reviews
There is a great difference between a war being categorized as "religious" and religion being politicized for the purpose of achieving a political goal. However it can at times be hard to tell difference between the two. It can be especially hard to do so when the difference between "pretend to be" and "is" is obscured almost to a point beyond recognition. Volume one analyzes the mass production and use of counterfeit religious symbolism used for political purposes. Volume two of this book focuses more on the actual practical application of the symbolism within the context of state, nation and faith: the use of counterfeit religious symbolism to blur the essential distinction between "what is a real danger to a nation" and "what is not."
Synopsis
(Ab)use of religion as a political means to an end: the achievement of nationalist political goals, analyzing 'how' through which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and still is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.
About the Author
Gorana Ognjenovic is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway and author of "Which Globalization? Whose Rights?",
Nordic Journal for Human Rights; forthcoming, co-author (with Nataša Mataušic and Jasna Jozelic) "Yugoslav authentic socialism", in (ed.) Zachary Tracy
Irwin's Sixty years and Counting-Yugoslavia's Expulsion from the Cominform in Historical Perspective. She is also editor of
Responsibility in Context and co-editor of
Dannelse, Tenkning, Modning, Refleksjon.
Jasna Jozelic is Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, and co-founder of the first Nordic online journal for social criticism, Dictum the Critical View. She is also co-author, with Gorana Ognjenovic and Natasa Matausic, of "Yugoslav Authentic Socialism" in Zachary Tracy Irwin's Sixty Years and Counting-Yugoslavia's Expulsion from the Cominform in Historical Perspective. In 2006, she published "Islamisation and Islam's Position in Today's Bosnia and Herzegovina" with the University of Bergen.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword - A Note on Sociology; Keith Tester
Preface; Gorana Ognjenovic and Jasna Jozelic
1. Introduction; Gorana Ognjenovic and Jasna Jozelic
2. Politicization of Religion, the Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina; Jasna Jozelic
3. Was the Bosnian War (1992-1995) a Full-fledged Religious War?; Sergej Flere
4. The Role of the Catholic Church in the Bosnian Conflict 1991-1995, An Historical Approach; Clemens Cavallin and Sead S. Fetahagic
5. Politicization of Religion in Former Yugoslavia: the Case of the Evangical Protestants?; Kosta Milkov
6. Ecclesiastical Involvement in Serbian Politics: Post-2000 Period; Milan Vukomanovic
7. The Political Dynamics of Intra-Orthodox Conflict in Montenegro; Kenneth Morrison and Nebojša Cagorovic
8. The Separation between Church and State in Slovenia: A Political Fiasco; Sreco Dragoš
9. Religion and Politics in Kosovo; Anton K. Berishaj
Conclusion