By G. Ognjenovic, J. Jozelic, Gorana Ognjenovi?, Jasna Jozeli?
(Ab)use of faith as a political capacity to an finish: the fulfillment of nationalist political ambitions, interpreting 'how' by which mechanisms this phenomenon has been and nonetheless is practiced in South-Eastern Europe.
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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). In Islam, the Quranic notion of Jihad has drawn notorious attention.
17. 50. Mahmutćehajić, Living Bosnia, p. 31. Politicization of Religion 31 51. Mahmutćehajić, Bosnia the Good, p. 33. 52. Srećko Džaja, Bosanska povijesna stvarnost njezini mitološki odraz (Sarajevo: Institut za istoriju u Sarajevu, 2003), p. 42. 53. Mahmutćehajić, Living Bosnia, p. 142. 54. Lester Kurtz, Gods in the Global Village: The World’s Religions in Sociological Perspective (Newbury Park, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1995), p. 18. 55. Anderson, Forestilte Felleskap, Refleksjoner omkring Nasjonalismens opprinnelse og spredning, p.
Myths of how a nation is built always have the same logic behind them, regardless of which nation is building them: “through myth, boundaries are established within the community and also in respect to other communities. ”16 In the case of Bosnia, these myths were essential for the bordering neighbor’s 17attempts to cast doubts on the Bosnian nation’s continuity. By these attempts to deny the sovereignty of the Bosnian nation, the neighboring countries were hoping to achieve the realization of their own territorial aspirations to the Bosnian territory.