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. In the volume one,we analyze the mass production and use of counterfeit religious symbolism used for political purposes. In volume two of this book we focus 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
This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
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. Quo vadis Vlachs? Project C?arnojevic´ into the 21st century; Gorana Ognjenovic
3. Ethno-religious Mimicryin the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Marjan Smrke
4. Religious Symbology and Mythology in Sexual Violence and Rape during the Conflict 1992-1995; Nena Mocnik
5. The Catholic Pledge in the Croatian Identity; Frano Prcela
6. Political Control and Religious Life at Narona: A Case Ctudy from Antiquity; Adam Lindhagen
7. Three Receptions of Bosnian Identity as Reflected in Religious Architecture; Amra Hadžimuhamedovic
8. Kosovo as Serbia's Sacred Space: Governmentality, Pastoral Power and Sacralization of Territories; Filip Ejdus and Jelena Subotic
9. Nation, Religion and Gender; Zilka Spahic
Conclusion