Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Nation, religion and fundamentalism
  • Synopsis
  • The basic argument
  • "And the earth was without form and void"
  • What is religion?
  • "If God does not exist, He would have to be invented"
  • Communio in sacris
  • Defining the "national" within the "Serbian"
  • The "fundamentalist" discourse
  • Accounting for "fundamentalism" in Serbia
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Orthodoxy and Serbian national identity
  • Synopsis
  • Introduction
  • The "doctrinal" content of orthodoxy
  • The creation of man in the "image and likeness of God"
  • The triune God: Father, Son and the Holy Spirit
  • The "functional" "cultus" content of orthodoxy
  • The role of the orthodox liturgy
  • The "normative" expressions of orthodoxy
  • Baptism and chrismation
  • The Eucharist
  • The holy matrimony of marriage
  • Orthodox iconography
  • Serbian orthodoxy
  • The foundations of the Serbian orthodoxy
  • Orthodoxy as the sacralisation of the Serbian identity
  • Krsna slava
  • The religious (non) affinity of the Serbs
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Homo serbicus
  • Synopsis
  • The moral and ethical construction of the Serbian cosmology
  • Homo serbicus (historical and territorial hypostases)
  • The "love ethic"
  • Honour
  • The concept of heroism
  • The concept of freedom
  • The concepts of justice and vengeance
  • Unity in diversity
  • The zadruga
  • Kumstvo
  • Homo serbicus (Balkan mentality)
  • Homo serbicus (mere stereotypes?)
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The pursuit of "secular" salvation
  • Synopsis
  • "Vox populi or vox dei"?
  • Serbian orthodoxy and Yugoslav communism
  • Josip Broz Tito
  • The Serbian monarchy
  • The chetnik movement
  • Slobodan Milosevic
  • Orthodoxy and the culture of power in Serbia
  • Serbian orthodoxy and democracy
  • Conclusion
  • 5. The pursuit of "sacrificial" salvation
  • Synopsis
  • National myth(s) and mythogenesis
  • The Kosovo battle (1389)
  • The legend of Kosovo
  • Kosovo: the continuous dialogue between the present and the past
  • The Kosovo "sacrifice"
  • Conclusion
  • 6. "To love your neighbour as yourself"
  • Synopsis
  • Homo homini lupus
  • (Instrumental) violence and orthodoxy
  • The Serbian warrior
  • The "distortion" of brotherhood and unity
  • God of life and death
  • Homo et femina nervis laborans (psychosis)?
  • Conclusion
  • 7. The Balkan orthodox commonwealth
  • Synopsis
  • Orthodoxy as the sacralisation of Serbianhood
  • The Greek orthodoxy
  • The Bulgarian orthodoxy
  • The Romanian orthodoxy
  • Conclusion.