Fascization of Religion as Betrayal of Faith Psychopathology of Ethno-Politicization of The Serbian Orthodox Church Cover Image

Fascization of Religion as Betrayal of Faith Psychopathology of Ethno-Politicization of The Serbian Orthodox Church
Fascization of Religion as Betrayal of Faith Psychopathology of Ethno-Politicization of The Serbian Orthodox Church

Author(s): Esad Bajtal
Subject(s): Psychology, Politics and religion, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Eastern Orthodoxy, Identity of Collectives, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: JU Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog naslijeđa
Keywords: religion; fascism; categorical imperative; patriarch; criminals; rape; genocide; Srebrenica;

Summary/Abstract: The text starts from the experiential observation that, sometimes even some religions, with their national-fascist coquetry, betray the Faith and its moral postulates. That is, on the other hand, it is a question of defining fascism as a “philosophy of political monism” which derives its views from a single, for political purposes, life-humane principle. In this sense, the text considers any speech or action of exclusivity fascist, regardless of whether they find their support in religion, nation, race or skin color. That is, any other ideology of social one-sidedness that does not recognize and attack the Other and otherwise. Given the relationship between religion and fascism, historical experience shows that every fascism is religious: neither has religions resistant to fascism, nor does fascism choose religion. At the regional level, as the bloody war experience of the Greater Serbia aggression of the 1990s shows, the pathological process of fascism of religion has deeply affected the ethnoideological strata of the “heavenly people” and some high-ranking officials of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

  • Issue Year: 10/2021
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 55-77
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: English