BALKANSKI BOG MARS - RELIGIJSKI FAKTOR U RATOVIMA 1991-1999.
THE BALKAN GOD MARS - A RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN THE WARS 1991-1999.

Author(s): Mirko Đorđević
Subject(s): Politics and religion, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Sociology of Religion, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: religious communities; Serbian Orthodox Church; war; symphony; applied theology; religious-ideological discourse; religious-warrior discourse
Summary/Abstract: The paper examines the role of the religious factor in the wars fought on the territory of the former Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1999. Special attention is paid to the Serbian Orthodox Church and the religious-warrior discourse that dominated its rhetoric (as well as the rhetoric of other religious communities) and its so-called applied theology. The mentioned discourse was directly in function of the war aims of the Serbian regime headed by Slobodan Milošević, with whom the Church established some form of symphony in accordance with the archaic model of Byzantine origin. On the one hand, the Church was manipulated there, but on the other hand, it paid the price for its incapacity for evangelical spiritual renewal, instead of which the process of clericalization of society began in the mentioned period.

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