Religion in the Yugoslav conflicts

The wars that dissolved Yugoslavia – were they religious wars? Why are conflicts increasingly coded as religious, rather than as, for example, social or ethnic? What constitutes a ‘religious’ or ‘holy’ war. This article attempts an inventory of important cat­egories and hypotheses generated in the relevant literature so far, with a few critical notes along the way. The author considers the role assigned to religion in structural, cultural, and actor-oriented explanations of the Yugoslav wars. Structural and cultural explanations downplay the role of human agency and, hence, of moral responsibility; actor-oriented approaches focus on it

Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Focus (optics · Political science · Religious belief · Social science · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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