• DOI:10.1023/A:1025332709069
Corpus ID: 56293987

In Hoc Signo Vinces: Religious Symbolism in the Balkan Wars 1991–1995

@article{Velikonja2001InHS,
  title={In Hoc Signo Vinces: Religious Symbolism in the Balkan Wars 1991–1995},
  author={M. Velikonja},
  journal={International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society},
  year={2001},
  volume={17},
  pages={25-40}
}

• M. Velikonja
• Published 2001
• History, Political Science, Sociology
• International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Symbols—as important and very persuasive elements of contemporary national and political mythologies and their iconography—are particulary exposed during critical periods of certain nations' history. Although the role and influences of religious organizations and hierarchies before and during the last wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina were quite different, all belligerent sides also employed religious symbols in their nationalistic/political mobilizations and military efforts. The ambition… Expand

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