Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism

Keith Tester, University of Hull, UK Gorana Ognjenovi?, University of Oslo, Norway Jasna Jozeli?, University of Oslo, Norway Marjan Smrke, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia Nena Mo?nik, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia Frano Prcela, University of Münster Mainz & IMDC Berlin, Germany Adam Lindhagen, University of Stockholm, Sweden Amra Hadzimuhamedovi?, Commission to Preserve National Monuments, Bosnia-Herzegovina Filip Ejdus, University in Belgrade, Serbia Jelena Subotic Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA Zilka Spahi? Harvard Divinity School USA; IUS, Bosnia-Herzegovina

"A sobering, enlightening and eye opening account on what has happened and may happen again if we persist in our refusal to see it for what it was. A topical study of a burning issue. A must read." - Zygmunt Bauman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, The Bauman Institute, University of Leeds, UK, author of Modernity and Holocaust (1989) and Liquid Modernity (2008) "This unique collection discusses the politicisation of religion after the collapse of a state of diverse ethnicities and religions. It shows that the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia were not time warped projects of ethnic nation-state building fed by religious symbolism, but rather pointed towards 21st century conflicts where secular space is being challenged and institutionalized religion and religious symbolism feed competing state projects and popular antagonisms. This is, indeed, a timely volume." - Tone Bringa, University of Bergen, Norway, Author of Being Muslim the Bosnian Way (1995)

• Contents Foreword - A Note on Sociology; Keith Tester Preface; Gorana Ognjenovi? and Jasna Jozeli? 1. Introduction; Gorana Ognjenovi? and Jasna Jozeli? 2. Quo vadis Vlachs? Project C?arnojevic? into the 21st century; Gorana Ognjenovi? 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 Mo?nik 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 Hadžimuhamedovi? 8. Kosovo as Serbia's Sacred Space: Governmentality, Pastoral Power and Sacralization of Territories; Filip Ejdus and Jelena Suboti? 9. Nation, Religion and Gender; Zilka Spahi? Conclusion