Politics, Religion and Remembering the Past: the Case of Croatian Serbs in the 1990s
Author(s)
Leutloff, Carolin
Abstract
This paper draws attention to the shifting relation between politics and religion by analyzing narratives and every day practices which deal with religion and its connection to politics. The author focuses on narratives that were collected and religious practices observed among Croatian Serbs in their exile in Belgrade, during the author’s anthropological fieldwork among Serb refugees in 1996 and 1997. These Serbs had lived in the so called “Krajina” from 1991- 1995. The “Krajina” was occupied by Serbian forces and was located in the Republic of Croatia, which had been proclaimed in 1990. The refugees fled the region in the direction of Serbia because of the Croatian military (re-)conquest of the “Krajina” in the summer of 1995.
