Posebnosti identiteta Podgoraca - njegovo oblikovanje i obilježja
The specifics of the identity of the people of Podgorje – its formation and characteristics

Summary/Abstract: Studies of the identities of individual peoples or ethnic groups do not differ significantly int heir methodological approach in as much in the fact that the feeling of the community, which is the basis of a collective identity, can be placed on completely different bases. The specifics, which determine an identity, are primarily the result of the historical and institutional context in which it has developed. Collective identities demonstrate an essential difference between political and cultural concepts of identity. However, the people of Podgorje have, for centuries, been the last line of defence of the Christian world and European civilisation from the Turks and the Islamisation of our continent. In the context of the Military Frontier as an institutional structure where they were on the bumper of Christianity, the people of Podgorje constructed an identity which we might be able to define by its characteristics not only as cultural but also as political.Research questions: Can we therefore, in the role of the guardians of Christianity, define theidentity of the people of Podgorje as a political identity which contains common political values which are expressed about the sense and directions of the project of a political community? Can these identity specifics also be analysed in the context of the political preference of the electoral body being Christian-conservatively orientated to the right?

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