Between „Integral Yugoslavism” and „Christian Nationalism”– Projections of the Community Within the Serbian Ideosphere After 1918 Cover Image

Pomiędzy „integralnym jugoslawizmem” a „chrześcijańskim nacjonalizmem” – projekcje wspólnoty w obrębie serbskiej ideosfery po 1918 roku
Between „Integral Yugoslavism” and „Christian Nationalism”– Projections of the Community Within the Serbian Ideosphere After 1918

Author(s): Dorota Gil
Subject(s): History, Political history, Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Serbia; Kingdom of Serbs; Croats and Slovenes (SHS); integrative idea; philosophical thought; nationalism

Summary/Abstract: In the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (SHS), established in 1918, yugoslavism as a political idea of the integration of the nations was correlated by the Serbian intellectuals with another kind of the idea of community which only preserved terminological appearances of connection with the initial conception. In the interwar reality, unprecised „integral yugoslavism” gradually became the indication of the ethnic exclusivism of the Serbs and their leadership ambitions in the new state (philosophical ground for such a vision layed Miloš Djurić, whereas nationalisation of the community project was continued by Vladimir Dvorniković). The radicalisation of this programme ensued thanks to the ideologists of so called Christian nationalism (above all Dimitrije Ljotić) and led to the affirmation of the values of the native traditionalism. Such a thought with a fascist indication, supported with the politicised Orthodoxy and taking shape of the Serbian national idea from the nineteen-thirties, will be constituted as a primary factor of the disintegration of the (imaginary) community of the Yugoslavs right into the nineteen-nineties.

  • Issue Year: 16/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 257-271
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish