Yugoslavian Inferno; Ethnoreligious Warfare in the Balkans

Dale Hasenick (Maps) New York, N.Y. The Continuum Publishing Company, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1], 248 pages. Footnotes. Rep erasure. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Inscription reads, To My #1 customer and my dear friend Alan. Cordially, Paul Mojzes Chicago, Nov. 17, 94. Has four b/w maps of Yugoslavia, a Pronunciation Guide, and an Introduction. Also includes chapters entitled Never Again?; Mytho-History; The Destructive Use of Memory; Last Chance for a Unified Yugoslavia; The Unresolved National Question; Civil War or War Between Countries?; The Religious Component in the Wars; Who or What Is To Blame?; Will UN Sanctions Topple the Regime in Yugoslavia?; Slovenia and Macedonia: A Study in Contrasts; Croatia: Neither War Nor Peace; Ending the War; And the War Goes On. Also includes Select Bibliography and Index. Paul Mojzes (born 10 November 1936) is professor emeritus of Religious Studies at Rosemont College. Mojzes grew up in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. He studied at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law before coming to the United States in 1957. He received his doctorate in Eastern European Church History from Boston University in 1965. Mojzes was Chair of the Religious Studies and Humanities Department at Rosemont College. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, and founder of Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe. Additionally, he was the interim director of the Gratz College Holocaust and Genocide Studies doctoral program and continues to teach at Gratz as an adjunct professor. He was also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Richard Stockton College. Based on travels in the region, on interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, as well as news accounts and monographs in generally inaccessible languages, and formulated after a lifetime of scholarly achievement, this book represents insights that only a native can provide, and the critical objectivity that only an outsider can offer. This authoritative and comprehensive account provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of Yugoslavia and the ensuing fraticidal warfare. Based on the author's extensive travels in the region, news accounts, and the author's interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, the book pays particular attention to the role of religion in fanning the flames of interethnic hatred. After the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, no-one was prepared for the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia. Suddenly old terms like chetnik and ustasha found new currency, and a new term surfaced – 'ethnic cleansing' – with its sickening echo of 'final solution'. The upsurge of nationalist sentiment in Eastern Europe raises the question whether the wars in the former Yugoslavia are harbingers of things to come. Will the racist idea of the ethnically pure state crush the humanist ideal of the multicultural society? Yugoslavian Inferno provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of Yugoslavia and the ensuing fratricidal warfare. It pays particular attention to the role of religion in fanning the flames of interethnic hatred and is written by a scholar uniquely placed to write it. A Yugoslavian-American with roots in both Croatia and Serbia, whose religious tradition is Protestant, rather than Catholic, Orthodox, or Muslim, Paul Mojzes is an internationally recognized authority on religion in Eastern Europe. Based on travels in the region, interviews with politicians, scholars, and religious leaders, as well as news accounts and monographs in generally inaccessible languages, and formulated after a lifetime of scholarly achievement, Yugoslavian Inferno presents insights that only a native can provide and the critical objectivity that only an outsider can offer. Condition: Very good / Very good.

Keywords: Yugoslav War, Ethnic Relations, Religion, Balkan Wars, Atrocities, Bosnia-Herzgovina, Croatia, Ethnic Cleansing, Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia, Slovenia, War Crimes

ISBN: 0836406831

[Book #81733]

Price: $75.00

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