Spirit of Place and Nation Building: Kosovo and Bosnia from Imperial to Post-Communist Times
During the period of nation building, the spirit of place (genius loci), attributing uniqueness to specific locations and ascribing to them close attachment to the nation, became a central vehicle for defending and appropriating territories and even for establishing a diaspora in exile. It was evoke...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Pages: 79-107 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bosnia
/ Kosovo
/ Nation
/ Religious language
/ Public space
/ Sacralization
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| IxTheo Classification: | AA Study of religion AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
Bosnia
B Sprit of place B nation building B the Field of Blackbirds B Nationalism B Kosovo B Bogumils B Kosovo polje B Religion |
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| Summary: | During the period of nation building, the spirit of place (genius loci), attributing uniqueness to specific locations and ascribing to them close attachment to the nation, became a central vehicle for defending and appropriating territories and even for establishing a diaspora in exile. It was evoked through discursive practices reminiscent of religious rhetoric and around monumental works of art, thereby staging history as mythical sacred theatre. The process of establishing imagined national geographies during the long period of nation building from the nineteenth century to the post-communist period is analysed in comparative perspective in two multi-religious and multi-ethnical regions in southeast Europe-Kosovo and Bosnia. The leading question I will try to answer is why the Field of Blackbirds in Kosovo was successfully established as a national holy place in the collective memory of the Serbs, whereas similar efforts in Bosnia did not result in inscribing mythic places into national memory. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.v9.2019.79-107 |