"In the Name of Nation!" : The Anti-Yugoslav Activities of (Clero)nationalists at the End of Tito's Yugoslavia in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
The aim of this study is to present the activities of anti-Yugoslav clerics in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mid-1980s. Based on historical documents stored in the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina (The Commission for Relations with Religious Communities), this paper analyzes how Bosnian communists, who focused on the principle of national balance, tried to deal with the growing nationalism that resonated in the discourses of the three main churches in the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina: the Serbian Orthodox Church, the Islamic Community, and the Roman Catholic Church.
The Yugoslav regime monitored the activities of church members and judged to what extent their behavior presented a threat to national harmony and balance.