SRPSKA PRAVOSLAVNA CRKVA NA IVICI RASKOLA
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ON THE BRINK OF SCHISM

Summary/Abstract: The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is a bastion of Serbian nationalism. Its ideology is drawn from the radical right and it is very close to groups at the rightist end of the political spectrum. With this ideology, the Church played a very important role in mobilisation and the prelude to war and, to this day, has made no attempt to distance itself from this role. Part of the Church continues to promote Serbian national interests in exactly the same way. The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, does not yet see the River Drina as a border but rather a bridge which “brings together” the Serbian nation: “Although, in some way, we are together now, God willing we shall be truly one in the near future. And of course I also mean that in the formal sense of those words.”

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