Osidla etnofiletismu: Srbská pravoslavná církev v zajetí kosovského mýtu
| Title in English | In the Toils of Ethnophiletism: Serbian Orthodox Churche in the Captivity of the Kosovo Myth |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Studia historica brunensia |
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| Field | History |
| Keywords | Serbian Orthodox Church ;The Kosovo Myth;clericalization;ethnophiletism;Greater Serbia; |
| Description | This article discusses about some important aspects of national and political engagement of Serbian Orthodox Church during the modern history. The Kosovo Myth, which the Church cultivates since the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, shields a feeling of a historical martyrdom and suffering, which was theologically transmitted on the whole Serbian nation. Thus an axiom about Serbs as a heavenly nation was created and it still prevents a possibility of a general acceptance of a part of the guilt for the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia. An opinion that the Church has historically been and still remains a vehicle and a pillar of the Serbian national being, misleads the SPC to ethnophiletism and a part of its high hierarchy to the support of the idea of the so-called Greater Serbia. Tendencies to shift the Church to the role of a decisive political force have intensified since the year 2000. |
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