{"id":36922,"date":"2023-08-29T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36922"},"modified":"2023-08-29T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T21:04:52","slug":"maria-falina-religion-and-politics-in-interwar-yugoslavia-serbian-nationalism-and-east-orthodox-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=36922","title":{"rendered":"Maria Falina, \u201eReligion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia: Serbian Nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia<\/em> explores the interaction between religion, nationalism, and political modernity in the first half of the 20th century, taking the case of the Serbian Orthodox Church as an example. This book historicizes the widely held assumption that the bond between religion and nationalism in the Balkans is a natural one or that this bond has been historically inevitable. It tells a complex story of how East Orthodox Christianity came to be at the core of one version of Serbian nationalism by bringing together the themes of religion, nationalism, politics, state-building, secularization, and modernity.<br><br>Maria Falina reconstructs how the ideological fusion between Serbian nationalism and East Orthodox Christianity was forged. The analysis emphasizes ideas and ideologies through a close reading of public discourses and historical narratives while paying attention to individual actors and their personal histories. The book argues that the particular political vision of the Serbian Orthodox Church emerged in reaction to and in interaction with the challenges posed by political modernity that were not unique to Yugoslavia. These included establishing the modern multinational and multi-religious state, the fear of secularization, and the rise of communism and fascism. <em>Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia<\/em> makes an important contribution to understanding the history of interwar Yugoslavia, 20th-century Europe, and the ties between religion and nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Acknowledgements<br>Introduction<br>1. Religion and Serbian State- and Nation-building before 1918<br>2. New Church for the New State: &#8216;Liberation and Unification&#8217; of Lands, People and Institutions<br>3. The Serbian Orthodox Church Faces the Challenge of Modernity<br>4. Climax: The Serbian Orthodox Church Enters Politics<br>5. Epilogue: The War<br>Bibliography<br>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maria Falina <\/strong>is Assistant Professor of European History at Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland. She is the editor of <em>World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflicts and Memory<\/em> (2018, co-edited with Judith Devlin and John Paul Newman) and author of <em>A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I and II<\/em> (2016 and 2018 respectively, co-authored with Bal\u00e1zs Trencs\u00e9nyi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, M\u00f3nika Ba\u00e1r, and Maciej Janowski).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published: 23 Feb 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format: Hardback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edition: 1st<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Extent: 220<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/religion-and-politics-in-interwar-yugoslavia-9781350282032\/\">https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/religion-and-politics-in-interwar-yugoslavia-9781350282032\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Falina.jpg?fit=360%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54174,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54174","url_meta":{"origin":36922,"position":0},"title":"Yanni Kotsonis, &#8220;The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism&#8221;","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"18. lipnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. 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