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and Slavophile sentiments about Russia. One of the most influential Serbian rock
bands, Ekaterina Velika, dedicated to Kosovo one of their hit songs, “Zemlja”
(Land), whose lyrics call on Serbs not to leave their land. Many other performers
wrote songs inspired by religion and myth.
38. “Eppur si muove,” NIN, 18 January 1987.
39. Religija i drusˇtvo (Religion and society) (Zagreb: Centar za idejno teorijski
rad Gradskog komiteta Saveza komunista, 1987), p. 120.
40. Pravoslavlje, 15 January 1984; Vjesnik Sedam Dana, 3 March 1984; TV
Belgrade, evening news, 26 February 1984.
41. The chronicle of the Visoki Dečani abbey on the Serbian-Albanian border
recorded that “in September of 1992 over 2,000 people were christened in the
Bistrica River. That was probably the first time—since the mass conversion of
Slavs to Christianity in the 7th century—that so many people accepted the Christian
Orthodox faith of their forefathers.” See Monastery Visoki Dečani, at
http//www.decani.yunet.com.
42. “U Beogradu odrzˇan prvi posleratni svetosavski ball” (First postwar Saint
Sava’s Ball held in Belgrade), Politika, 29 January 1989.
43. NIN, 26 April 1991.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. In the 1990s, Dragojlović published spiritual treatises and nationalistic
pamphlets. See Dragan Dragojlović, Nebeska Srbija (Belgrade: Srpska knjizˇevna
zadruga, 1990) Dozivanje Boga (Belgrade: Prosveta, 1995).
47. NIN, 26 April 1991.
48. See Dragojlović’s article in Gordana Z ˇ ivković, ed., Čovek i crkva u vrtlogu
krize: sˇta nam nudi pravoslavlje danas? (Man and the Church in the vortex of crisis:
What Can the Orthodox faith offer us today?) (Nisˇ: Gradina, 1993). See also his
poetry and essays, Nebeska Srbija (Heavenly Serbia) (Belgrade: Srpska knjizˇevna
zadruga, 1990); Dozivanje Boga (Calling God) (Belgrade: Prosveta, 1995).
49. “Predlog srpskog crkveno-nacionalnog programa” (A proposal of the Serbian
Church-National program), Glas crkve, no. 3, 28 June, 1989.
50. Ibid.
51. Ibid.
52. Mitar Miljanović, “Srpska pravoslavna crkva i nacionalno pitanje” (The
Serbian Orthodox Church and the national question), Glas Crkve, no. 1, January
1991, pp. 61–69.
53. Ibid., pp. 67–71.
54. Ibid., p. 70.
55. Ibid., p. 71.
56. AKSA, 31 August 1984.
57. According to Religion, Politics, Society, March 1986, and Adresar katoličke
crkve u SFRJ.
58. Omladinske novine, 15 April 1984; also Religion, Politics, Society, 19 April
1984.
59. S ˇ tefica Bahtijarević, ed., Religijska situacija na području zagrebačke regije
(The Religious situation in the Zagreb region) (Zagreb: Institute za drusˇtvena
istrazˇivanja Sveučilisˇta u Zagrebu, 1985). The statement by one of the researchers
Liudevit Plačko is quoted from Religion, Politics, Society, 30 May 1985, p. III/43.
60. Ibid.
61. Vrcan, “Religion, Nation and Class in Contemporary Yugoslavia,” p. 94.
282 notes to pages 129–132