RELIGION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN MONO-CONFESSIONAL AND MULTI-CONFESSIONAL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND IN THE BALKANS
RELIGION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN MONO-CONFESSIONAL AND MULTI-CONFESSIONAL COUNTRIES IN EUROPE AND IN THE BALKANS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the authors will firstly analyze the different places and role of religion in relation to national identity, subject to the prevalence of one or more religions. Secondly, in this context the authors will pay due attention to the role of religion in relation to the historically shaped either strong or weak connection developed between religion and the ethnos. Based on the analysis of the available empirical material, the authors will draw conclusions on the ambivalent potential of religion regarding national identity, depending on the combination of both of the abovementioned factors. The conclusion remarks will be illustrated by two case studies, of Macedonia and Bulgaria in order to notice and to elaborate the specificities and similarities of the basic topic of this paper.

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