The bosnian muslims are in the unique and somewhat awkward position of being the only group of muslim believers in the world who are considered muslim. Ethnoreligious warfare in the balkans, by paul mojzes is so economical. Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the twentieth century. During the twentieth century, the balkan peninsula was affected by three major waves of genocides and ethnic cleansings, some of which are still being denied today. Mojzes, himself brought up in several areas of yugoslavia, presents here a study of the roots of the conflicts tearing the country apart in 1994, the time of publication. If yugoslavias descent into disaster had been an airline crash, paul mojzes would be the chronicler who gives us the detailed account from its black box. With this book, paul mojzes has again put eastern european scholarship in his debt. Yugoslavian inferno provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of yugoslavia and the ensuing fratricidal warfare. This is what paul mojzes, theoretician of religion and author of the book yugoslav inferno has to say on bosnian muslims. Ethnoreligious warfare in the balkans history and politics in the 20th century. The history of the conflict in the former yugoslavia.
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A religious studies professor, he gives more attention than most to that dimension of the war, but it does not dominate his exposition. Thus, readers can get something of an idea of how the various exyugoslav peoples view each others nationalisms because mojzes is equally critical of all nationalisms in the former yugoslavia. This authoritative and comprehensive account provides a rich analysis of the complex issues that brought about the demise of yugoslavia and the ensuing fraticidal. Mojzes is the coeditor of the journal of ecumenical studies, and founder and coeditor of religion in eastern europe. He is a native of yugoslavia where he studied at belgrade university law school, received the a. Balkan genocides paul mojzes bok 9781442206632 bokus. He was interim director of the gratz college holocaust and genocide studies doctoral program and continues to teach at gratz as an adjunct professor. Yugoslavian inferno ethnoreligious warfare in the balkans. 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. Was the bosnian war 19921995 a fullfledged religious war. A native of yugoslavia, mojzes offers new insights into the balkan genocides. Paul mojzes has 16 books on goodreads with 9 ratings. Ethnoreligious warfare in the balkans, by paul mojzes.
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