WORSE THAN EXECUTION - A SKETCH FOR A SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON RAPE Cover Image

TEŽE OD SMAKNUĆA - SKICA SOCIOLOGIJSKOG PROMIŠLJANJA SILOVANJA
WORSE THAN EXECUTION - A SKETCH FOR A SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON RAPE

Author(s): Esad Ćimić
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Victimology, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: rape; Croatian spirituality; Muslims and Catholics;

Summary/Abstract: ln the text the author attempts to sociologically reflect on rape in the context of particular spiritualities - the Serbian, Croatian and Muslim. The Orthodox creed transformed into "svetosavlje" (the concept of Holy Sava) has become an inarticulate, rigid ideology distancing itself from the definition of religion as love (towards God) and turning it all into hatred. Crucified between the attempt to conquer original faith and the notion that this has not been historically destined, the people of the "Holy Sava" tradition have become trapped in their unquenchable desire to spread in space by killing, conquering, destroying and raping. The data gathered suggests an approximative conclusion that they are not authentic Christian Orthodoxists but for the most part represent a heterogeneous group. In Croatian spirituality the being of evil as a separate existence is disputed.

  • Issue Year: 4/1995
  • Issue No: 18+19
  • Page Range: 679-701
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Croatian