RELS 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Serbian Orthodox Church, Ethnocide, Postcolonial Literature
26 Oct 2017
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Major feature of post-colonial literature concern with place and displacement. Valid and active sense of self eroded by dislocation, resulting from migration, experience of enslavement, transportation, voluntary" removal . Cultural denigration conscious and unconscious oppression of indigenous personality. Projection: involves the unconscious or conscious attributions of either good or bad parts of the self onto other human beings. Ethnocide: a deliberate attempt to destroy the national, ethnic, religious, political, social, or class identity of a group, as these groups are de ned by the perpetrators. Genocide: a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group, as that group and membership are de ned by the perpetrator. Contributions of the religious communities towards hatred and war: the roman catholic contribution to nationalism, the serbian orthodox role in the disintegration of yugoslavia, bosnian muslims: ethnoreligious ambiguity, macedonian orthodox separatism, protestants: inability to withstand war propaganda. Ethnoreligiosity and trends in secularization: the ethnoreligious nexus.
