Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p The Intertwining of Religion and Nationhood in Interwar Yugoslavia: The School Celebrations of St Sava's Day by Pieter Troch The celebration of St Sava's Day in schools during the interwar period expressed the policy of the Yugoslav state authorities to reconcile religious diversity among its population with national unity by highlighting the parallel national character of Yugoslav Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam. These celebrations, however, generated strong opposition from leaders of the religious communities in Yugoslavia. Crucially, the criticism was not directed against the Yugoslav national programme in education as such, but revolved around the fundamentally different ontologies of the nationalizing state and religious thinkers. For the former, religious symbolic resources like St Sava served the purpose of the nation, for the latter the meaning of St Sava could not be detached from Orthodoxy. The divergence between religious thinking and the national program of the Yugoslav state authorities explains the parallel shift among religious thinkers in Yugoslavia away from Yugoslavism to the Croatian Catholic, Serbian Orthodox and Bosnian Muslim nationalization of religion.. }
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- aggregation abstract "The Intertwining of Religion and Nationhood in Interwar Yugoslavia: The School Celebrations of St Sava's Day by Pieter Troch The celebration of St Sava's Day in schools during the interwar period expressed the policy of the Yugoslav state authorities to reconcile religious diversity among its population with national unity by highlighting the parallel national character of Yugoslav Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Islam. These celebrations, however, generated strong opposition from leaders of the religious communities in Yugoslavia. Crucially, the criticism was not directed against the Yugoslav national programme in education as such, but revolved around the fundamentally different ontologies of the nationalizing state and religious thinkers. For the former, religious symbolic resources like St Sava served the purpose of the nation, for the latter the meaning of St Sava could not be detached from Orthodoxy. The divergence between religious thinking and the national program of the Yugoslav state authorities explains the parallel shift among religious thinkers in Yugoslavia away from Yugoslavism to the Croatian Catholic, Serbian Orthodox and Bosnian Muslim nationalization of religion.".