FORGING IDENTITIES

This book brings together eleven studies which approach the role of religion and violence in the construction of collective identities in the Balkans.

The chronological purview is wide, stretching from the 17th to the 20th centuries with the requisite excursions to even earlier times.

A number of other salient themes also run through these essays, adding to their internal cohesion, such as the Ottoman past of the region and the transition from pre-national to national modes of belonging.