Medjugorje: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Rural BosniaVU Uitgeverij, 1995 - 139 strani Medjugorje, fifteen years ago an out-of-the-way peasant village in Bosnia Hercegovina, is today a Marian devotion centre of global repute. Based on some ten years of fieldwork in the region, the author gives a detailed account of that transformation process, in which religion, politics and violence are closely intertwined. Adopting a long-term historical approach the description also open up surprisingly new perspectives on today's problems and atrocities in Bosnia Hercegovina. |
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Non-state Actors in International Relations Bas Arts,Math Noortmann,Bob Reinalda Prikaz kratkega opisa - 2001 |