Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States

Stanković, Vladimir, 40, 41. See also
Croatian Church abroad
Stefan (Boca), Bishop, 32
Stepinac, Alojzije, Cardinal, 19–20,
152 n.100, 229–230
beatification of, 148, 152 n.104, 176
communist trial of, 26–27, 29
his cult in postcommunist Croatia,
176–177, 189
and persecution of Serbs and Jews
in NDH, 118, 152, 155–156
Strossmayer, Josip Juraj, Bishop, 10,
19, 67
Studenica monastery, 7, 128, 249
n.25
S ˇ usˇak, Gojko, 141, 172, 207
S ˇ usˇtar, Alojz, Archbishop, 126
Sutjeska, battle of, 96 n. 42, 97
Svete Zdenko, 138–139, 138 nn. 27,
32, 138 n. 33. See also Church-
State relations
Taliban, 169
Theodemocracy, 131
Thirteen Centuries of Christianity in
the Croat People. See Great
Novena
Tito, Josip Broz, 19, 31, 43–44, 54–
55, 56–57, 99, 125, 130, 133,
135, 188, 224–226
conflict with Stalin and
Cominform, 26, 95–96, 98, 98
n.46
cult of, 80–81, 80 n.22, 89–91,
103–105
his dictatorship, 104, 104 n.81
memory in successor states, 207–
208
personal views about religion, 103
Tudjman, Franjo, 57, 103, 107, 140,
147–148, 147 nn.78–79, 161,
196 n.40
and Croatian Catholicism 141, 147–
148, 190–191
Turčinović, Josip, 4 n.6, 69
UDBA (SDB, SDS), communist secret
police, 11, 28, 30 n.56, 35, 48,
133–134, 134 n.4, 141 n.43, 153
n.106
Ukraine, 116, 164 n.170, 268 n.64
Uniatism, 15, 18, 146, 159–160, 164–
170
United States, 80, 92–93, 113, 177,
181, 192, 195–196, 198, 201,
204, 222
Unković, Vitomir, 134, 138, 138 n.32,
139 n.33, See also Commissions
for religious affairs
Ustasˇas, 18, 28, 69, 110, 188–189.
See also Independent State of
Croatia
Vasilije (Kačavenda), Bishop, 156, 180
Vatican, 25, 47, 135, 146, 150, 162–
164, 177, 189–190, 195, 198.
See also John Paul II
Veresˇ, Tomo, 31
Veselica, Marko, 57, 63 n.35
Vidovdan (St.Vitus Day), 8, 18, 20,
128
Vincetić, Luka, 179
Vračar. See St. Sava’s Memorial
church
Vrcan, Srdjan, 50, 102, 132, 154
n.114. See also Atheism;
Secularization
Wars in Croatia and Bosnia (1991–
1995), 141, 153–154, 165–166,
171, 185, 191, 201. See also
Croatian War for the Fatherland
World Conference of Religion and
Peace (WCRP), 180 n.59, 239,
239 n.54
World Council of Churches (WCC),
33, 46, 53
World War I, 18, 39–40, 128, 131
World War II, 21–24, 69, 131, 147,
150–151, 156–157
wartime massacres and torture 23,
118, 177
Young Muslims, 74, 76, 142
Youth Relay. See Tito, Josip Broz
Yugonostalgia movement, 208
Yugoslav Muslim Organization (YMO),
11, 76
Yugoslav National Team. See Sport in
Yugoslavia
Yugoslav People’s Army, 96, 138–139,
139 n.35, 154, 163
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