Making it Real: The Narrative (Re)Construction of a Pilgrimage Centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina
@inproceedings{Despres2010MakingIR, title={Making it Real: The Narrative (Re)Construction of a Pilgrimage Centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina}, author={S. Després}, year={2010} }
In the Balkans, language, culture, ethnicity, nationalism, and religion are inextricably interconnected, and religious factionalism plays a central role in the continuing tensions between Croats and Serbs. So intense is this fusion of the secular and the sacred in the former Yugoslavia that little more than a decade ago, it contributed to the construction of ideologies of “ethnic cleansing” which led to a civil war. An arena of competition and struggle between different groups attempting to win… CONTINUE READING