Naslov
"We all laughed at the secret of the collapse of Communism, only Communists believed in that": the first ten years of the Medjugorje apparitions

Autori
Belaj, Marijana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
SIEF 2015 Utopias, Realities, Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21 st Century / - Zagreb : SIEF, 2015, 135-135

Skup
SIEF2015 Utopias, Realities, Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st Century. 12th Congress of Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 21.06.2015. - 25.06.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Cold War; communism; communist authority; Church; Mary; apparitions; Medjugorje; resistance; nationalism

Sažetak
The apparitions in Medjugorje are an extremely complex phenomenon that produces different interpretations and evaluations. In this paper I will focus solely on the perspective of those who recognize the apparitions of Mary as a symbol of resistance. This Mary's role I will analyse in the context of the Medjugorje apparitions in a time of socio-political crisis in communist Yugoslavia, primarily generated by the death of its president Josip Broz Tito and demonstrations in Kosovo. In that period Medjugorje apparitions have disturbed the spirits, not only within the communist authorities of Yugoslavia, but also within the Church. National authorities characterize the apparitions of Medjugorje as fiction of local Franciscans – "clerical nationalists", in the words of one of communist officials – with the aim of bringing down the constitutional order of the communist Yugoslavia. At the same time, the alleged apparitions in Medjugorje have deeply shaken the Church of this area and intensified the centuries-old conflict between diocesan and Franciscan priests of the Mostar-Duvno Diocese, where Medjugorje belongs.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Povijest, Etnologija i antropologija

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