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Religion and national identity in Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Stella Alexander
Stella Alexander*
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London
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Religion in Yugoslavia is a divisive, not a unifying force. The country is a federation of republics inhabited by six different nationalities which are historically identified with three great religious confessions, catholicism, orthodoxy, and islam. The pattern is complex and dense, the assumptions and reflex actions of the human beings who make up these communities are deeply rooted in centuries of history, and nationalism and religion are proving tougher than ideology. My paper therefore must start by describing this mixture, this macédoine, if one may borrow a culinary expression which itself derives from one of the component territories of these lands.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 18: Religion and National Identity , 1982 , pp. 591 - 607
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1982

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4 G. Schöpflin, ‘Nationalism as a disintegrative factor in Yugoslavia’, paper delivered at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, n June 1980.