Thicker than Water? Kin, Religion, and Conflict in the Balkans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20139980 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P H Liotta (corresponding author), Anna Simons |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 1998-11-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The US Army War College Quarterly Parameters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-1723 • E-ISSN: 0031-1723 |
| Publisher | United States Army War College Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.55540/0031-1723.1903 |
| OpenAlex | W151061497 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
Listen then, to what you do not know. The three rivers of the ancient world of the dead--the Acheron, the Phlegethon, and the Cocytus--today belong to the underworlds of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity; their flow divides the three hells--Gehenna, Hades, and the icy hell of the Mohammedans--beneath the onetime Khazar lands. And there, at the junction of these three borders, are confronted the three worlds of the dead: Satan's fiery state with the nine circles of the Christian Hades, with Lucifer's throne . . . the Moslem underworld . . . kingdom of icy torment; and Geburah's territory, to the left of the Temple, where the Hebrew gods of evil, greed, and hunger sit in Gehenna . . . . In the Jewish hell, in the state of Belial, the angel of darkness and sin, it is not Jews who burn, as you think. Those like yourself, all Arabs or Christians, burn there. Similarly, there are no Christians in the Christian hell--those who reach the fires are Mohammedans or of David's faith, whereas in Iblis' Moslem torture chamber they are all Christians and Jews, not a single Turk or Arab. The failure to develop a "European" solution for the former Yugoslavia led to direct UN involvement. When that effort failed, the United States, albeit initially reluctantly, led the NATO alliance to halt hostilities and began the painstaking process of rebuilding social, political, economic, and military structures in the region
Criminology · Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Philosophy · Turkey's Politics and Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2012 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |