Research Catalog

Title

Religion and the politics of identity in Kosovo / Ger Duijzings.

Author

Duijzings, Gerlachlus, 1961-

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Description

xv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subjects

• Serbia > Religion > 20th century
• Kosovo (Republic) > Religion > 20th century
• Kosovo (Republic) > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-227) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. Kosovo as an ethnic shatter zone. The concept of identity. States and the politics of identity. Religion and religious regimes. Violence, identity and the nation-state -- 2. The Exodus of Kosovo Croats: A Chronicle of Ethnic Unmixing. An ethnographic sketch of Letnica. Letnica 1992. The exodus. Resettlement in Western Slavonia -- 3. Christian Shrines and Muslim Pilgrims: Joint Pilgrimages and Ambiguous Sanctuaries. The Muslim Gypsy pilgrimage to Gracanica. Zociste: the end of a 'mixed' pilgrimage. Unrest in the Ostrog monastery. Ambiguous sanctuaries and dervish orders. The Bektashi order and Sari Saltuk -- 4. The Martyrs of Stublla: Albanian Crypto-Catholics and the Franciscan Mission. A historical survey of the parish of Letnica. The Martyrs of Stublla, 1846-48. The Tanzimat reforms and the Franciscan offensive -- 5. Albanian Dervishes versus Bosnian Ulema: The Revival of Popular Sufism in Kosovo. Dervishes under attack from Serbian nationalists.
• Dervish orders in Kosovo: a survey. Polemics between Kosovar sheikhs and the Islamic Community. Shi'ite tendencies. The revival and its background -- 6. The Making of Egyptians in Kosovo and Macedonia. The ethnonym 'Egyptian'. The Egyptians in Yugoslavia. Serbian and Macedonian support. Former Albanianization of the Egyptians. Ethnic mimicry among Gypsies. Censuses and ethnic strife: large groups swallow small ones -- 7. Naim Frasheri's Qerbelaja: Religion and Nationalism among the Albanians. Albanian nationalism and overcoming religious divisions. Frasheri's blend of Albanian nationalism and Bektashi doctrine. The Bektashis' response. Frasheri's failure to promote Bektashism as the national creed -- 8. The Kosovo Epic: Religion and Nationalism among the Serbs. The theme of suffering. The Kosovo myth. Kosovo in the Active Mood. Folk poetics and populist politics. The recent political use of the myth. Republika Srpska as the realm of the Kosovo spirit -- 9. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0231120982 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231120990 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00023834

OCLC

• ocm43513230
• SCSB-3902244

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries