RELIGIJA I POLITIKA 1991-1999. - CRNOGORSKA PERSPEKTIVA
RELIGION AND POLITICS 1991-1999. - THE MONTENEGRO PERSPECTIVE

Author(s): Šerbo Rastoder
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Theory, Security and defense, Politics and religion, Sociology of Religion
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: Montenegro; church; politics; war; power
Summary/Abstract: It is possible that the courts, which would be based on the just-started research into the roles of religious communities in recent wars and the process of disintegration of the SFRY, would be insufficient and unfounded and therefore easily challenged, if they were based only on the analysis of available documentation and without a complementary analysis carried out to the end, as is the case in this work. Hence, with all the risks we are aware of, even a superficial analysis indicates that in the process of the transition of society from communist to national totalitarianism, the church largely assumed the role of ideological leaven in the process of national homogenization. In the case of Montenegro, the SPC saw the communist heritage as the main reason for its "distance from Serbianism and holiness" and the need to "return it" to the national romantic vision of "Serbian Sparta", which in the "imposed, defensive" war against "Orthodoxy", would be on the front line in rounding up the Serbian national space and finally correcting the "mistake" from 1918, when "instead of the Serbian national state" created Yugoslavia. In this way, the process of national polarization in Montenegro was accelerated, which again became an insurmountable limit for the modernization of its society.

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