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Tables of Contents for Religious Quest and National Identity in the Balkans
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Foreword
x
Notes on the Contributors
xx
Maps
xxiii
Introduction
1
16
Muriel Heppell
Harry Norris
Part I Layers of Belief, Blurred Boundaries
17
94
Prolegomenon to Religion in the Balkans
19
18
John Nandris
Interpreting the Bible and the Koran in the Bulgarian Oral Tradition: the Saga of Abraham in Performance
37
20
Florentina Badalanova
Art and Doctrine in the First Bulgarian Kingdom
57
12
Elissaveta Moussakova
Dualist Heresy in the Latin Empire of Constantinople
69
9
Bernard Hamilton
The Religious Situation of the Hungarian Kingdom in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
78
13
Ioan-Aurel Pop
Crypto-Christianity and Religious Amphibianism in the Ottoman Balkans: the Case of Kosovo
91
20
Noel Malcolm
Part II Orthodoxy
111
28
The Chilandariou Icon `Mother of God Tricheirousa': History, Cult and Tradition
113
12
Vladeta Jankovic
Hesychasm in the Balkans
125
14
Muriel Heppell
Part III Islam
139
62
Islam in the Balkans: the Bosnian Case
141
17
Alexander Lopasic
Muslim Communities in Romania: Presence and Continuity
158
10
Jennifer Scarce
The Bektashis in the Balkans
168
33
John Norton
Part IV Religion, Politics, National Mythologies
201
30
Religion, Irreligion and Nationalism in the Diaries of the Bulgarian Exarch Yosif
203
15
F. A. K. Yasamee
Sharpened Minds: Religious and Mythological Factors in the Creation of the National Identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina
218
13
Mitja Velikonja
Appendix: Report of a Meeting of Religious Leaders, Kosovo, March 1999
231
3
Select Bibliography
234
3
Index
237