Politicization of Religion and the Power of State, Nation, by G. Ognjenovic, J. Jozelic, Gorana Ognjenovi?, Jasna Jozeli?

By G. Ognjenovic, J. Jozelic, Gorana Ognjenovi?, Jasna Jozeli?

There is a smart distinction among a battle being labeled as "religious" and faith being politicized for the aim of attaining a political aim. but it can every now and then be tough to inform distinction among the 2. it may be specially challenging to take action whilst the variation among "pretend to be" and "is" is obscured nearly to some degree past attractiveness. within the quantity one,we study the mass creation and use of counterfeit spiritual symbolism used for political reasons. In quantity of this booklet we concentration extra at the genuine functional software of the symbolism in the context of country, kingdom and religion: using counterfeit non secular symbolism to blur the basic contrast among "what is a true chance to a state" and "what is not."

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Ramet, The Independent State of Croatia 1941–45, Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions (London: Routledge, 2008).  17. 50.  31. Politicization of Religion 31 51.  33. 52.  42. 53.  142. 54.  18. 55.  23. 56.  9. 57.  15. 58.  16. 59.  17.  27–28. 61. ba /home/o-name/licna-karta-stranke/. 62.  154. 63. SDA is short for Party of Democratic Action (Stranka Demokratske Akcije). 129) November 19, 1999. 65.  222.  200. 67. Lederer, Bosna—Centar balkanskog islama.  248.  141. Lederer, Bosna—Centar balkanskog islama.

The history of Christian involvement in war is long and rich in incident. Early in the development of Christianity, a theological stance aimed at justifying war was drafted, its core being the concept of a “just war” (ius ad bello and ius in bello). Classic statements include that by St. Augustine, who holds that “Those who act according to a divine command, or even God’s laws as enacted by the state and who put wicked men to death have by no means violated the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’” (De Civitate Dei).

6.  45. 7.  14–26. 8.  51. 9.  38. Politicization of Religion 29 10.  120–122. 11.  120. 12.  38. 13.  66. 14.  138–154. 15. Although Noel Malcolm (Bosnia: A Short History (London: Papermac, 1994), pp. 51–61), believes that the Bogumil struggle did not have a larger role in their massive conversion to Islam than the other cultural and social processes in Bosnia at that time. 16. George Schöpflin, “The Functions of Myth and a Taxonomy of Myths,” in Geoffrey Hosking and George Schöplin, eds.  20.

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