Aleksov, Bojan (2004) Perceptions of Religious Conversion in the Formation of the Serbian National Consciousness. In: Evangelization, Conversion, Proselytism. Yugoslav Society for the scientific study of religion, Komren Sociological Encounters Punta, Niš, Serbia, pp. 41-53. ISBN 86-83119-99-8
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"What follows are the conclusions of the research I undertook over several years and whose results were published published elsewhere. My principal source material in studying the genesis and the dynamic of the representation of religious conversions and the factors and forces that shaped it has been the works of scholars, writers and historians whose position is well established in Serbian society. They were, or are, university professors, academicians, textbook authors, ministers, and ambassadors – all of them the chief protagonists of cultural production and public opinion formation. My study also examined the recasting and the exploitation of certain aspects of these representations that took place in the years preceding and during the most recent wars in former Yugoslavia. The survival of the mythologized view of religious conversion is striking, as it seems to defy the growing distance from the time of the events they refer to, the seemingly insignificant role of religion in modern society, and the fact that many of them had already been successfully demystified. And in Serbia, there have been studies that have provided alternative, non-nationalist modes of explanation.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Conversion G Christian traditions/Denominations > Eastern Orthodox |
| Divisions: | Balkan countries > Serbia |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Nov 2019 15:23 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Dec 2021 13:59 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1715 |
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