СРПСТВО ДВОВЕРНИХ ДАЛМАТИНСКИХ СРБА (НА ПРИМЕРУ МАРКА МУРАТА И НИКОДИМА МИЛАША)
THE DALMATIAN SERBS: ONE NATION AND TWO RELIGIONS (THE EXAMPLES OF MARKO MURAT AND NIKODIM MILAŠ)

Summary/Abstract: The author examines the issue of religious partition of the Serbian people from the Middle Ages until the 1930s. Division along the religious lines may be generally observed everywhere on the territory inhabited by the Serbs. Yet, the author decides for the most part to focus on the Serbs of Dalmatia, Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska in the XIX and at the beginning of the XX century, and on their adherence to either Orthodox, or Roman-Catholic Christianity. The religion could have played both the consolidating and the disintegrative role in formation of the Serbian nation, and the author explores these options, studying the beliefs and convictions of two prominent Serbs of the time: Roman-Catholic Marko Murat and Orthodox bishop Nikodim Milaš. In the end, the author deliberates on three Serbian misapprehensions with respect to the relation between the religion and the Serbian nation.

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