Alternative Sociologies of Religion by Spickard James V.;

Author:Spickard, James V.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL000000 Religion / General
Publisher: New York University Press

was systematic, methodical, and precise. Catholic homes, businesses, and shrines remained untouched, but the non-Catholic heritage and property were thoroughly destroyed. Foremost among the mosques destroyed . . . was the Emperor’s mosque . . . one of the three most ancient in B[osnia-]H[erzegovina]. . . . Eight other mosques were destroyed, including other historic works from the Ottoman period. Also . . . the Orthodox church of Holy Assumption . . . as well as ten residential areas, four urban neighborhoods, the bazaar area, . . . three main libraries, two public galleries of paintings . . . [and so on]. As in other campaigns by Catholic and Orthodox militias, the precision with which the target heritage was sought out and destroyed indicated the participation of an educated elite as advisors, including, according to reports, local Catholic art historians and professors.12

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