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Michael R. Sells. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xv, 244 pp.

Michael R. Sells. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of... dominated by "chauvinistic, a g g r e s s i v e G r e a t e r Serbian nationalist officers." In 1853 the ideology of Greater Serbia was still blamed for all of the sins of interwar Yugoslavia. The titie of this collection may be a bit misleading since only a small number of the ar- ticles deal explicitly with Serb-Russian relations. Nevertheless, this is a fine collection of representative articles from an important scholar's lifetime work, and it will remain a signif- icant référence volume, particularly for students of Serbia and the Balkans. Thomas A. Emmert Gustavus Adolphus College Michael R. Sells. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion a n d Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1996. xv, 244 pp. The central thesis of this book is that the genocide committed against Bosnian Mus- lims by S e r b s and Croats was basically a "religious genocide." Muslims were killed be- c a u s e of their religious identity; t h o s e who killed them were sanctioned by Christian reli- gious leaders who promulgated the view that Slavic Muslims were Christ-killers and race traitors; and all of this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Michael R. Sells. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. xv, 244 pp.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 32 (4): 4 – Jan 1, 1998

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dominated by "chauvinistic, a g g r e s s i v e G r e a t e r Serbian nationalist officers." In 1853 the ideology of Greater Serbia was still blamed for all of the sins of interwar Yugoslavia. The titie of this collection may be a bit misleading since only a small number of the ar- ticles deal explicitly with Serb-Russian relations. Nevertheless, this is a fine collection of representative articles from an important scholar's lifetime work, and it will remain a signif- icant référence volume, particularly for students of Serbia and the Balkans. Thomas A. Emmert Gustavus Adolphus College Michael R. Sells. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion a n d Genocide in Bosnia. Berkeley: Uni- versity of California Press, 1996. xv, 244 pp. The central thesis of this book is that the genocide committed against Bosnian Mus- lims by S e r b s and Croats was basically a "religious genocide." Muslims were killed be- c a u s e of their religious identity; t h o s e who killed them were sanctioned by Christian reli- gious leaders who promulgated the view that Slavic Muslims were Christ-killers and race traitors; and all of this

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