Religious quest and national identity in the Balkans/

Main Author: Hawkesworth, Celia, 1942-
Other Authors: Heppell, Muriel, Norris, Harry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York: Palgrave: School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London, 2001
Series:Studies in Russia and East Europe
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Muriel Heppell and Harry Norris
  • PART I: LAYERS OF BELIEF, BLURRED BOUNDARIES; 1. Prolegomenon to religion in the Balkans / John Nandris; 2. Interpreting the Bible and the Koran in the Bulgarian oral tradition: the Saga of Abraham in performance / Florentina Badalanova; 3. Art and doctrine in the First Bulgarian Kingdom / Elissaveta Moussakova; 4. Dualist heresy in the Latin Empire of Constantinople / Bernard Hamilton; 5. The religious situation of the Hungarian Kingdom in the 13th and 14th centuries / Ioan Aurel Pop; 6. Crypto-Christiantiy and religious Amphibianism / Noel Malcolm
  • PART II: ORTHODOXY; 7. The Chilandariou icon "Mother of God Tricheirousa": History, cult and tradition / Vladeta Jankovic?; 8. Hesychasm in the Balkans / Muriel Heppell
  • PART III: ISLAM; 9. Islam in the Balkans: The Bosnian Case / Alexander Lopasic; 10. Muslim Communities in Romania / Jennifer Scarce; 11. The Bektashis in the Balkans / John Norton
  • PART IV: RELIGION, POLITICS, NATIONAL MYTHOLOGIES; 12. Religion, irreligion and nationalism in the diaries of the Bulgarian Exarch Yosif / F.A.K.Yasamee; 13.Sharpened minds: religious and mythological factors in the creation of national identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Mitja Velikonja.