"They believe in bombs, we believe in God" religious aspects of war between the SR of Yugoslavia and NATO

Abstract

Mythological understanding of the world and ethnic self-centrism, through seeing one's own nation as "the chosen nation", were both present during the war between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRY) and NATO. The aim of this study is to confirm to what extent that way of thinking was actually spread among common people today. The survey was made on soliders in the Yugoslav Army because they were directly confronted with the enemy and, at the same time, they were undergoing the strongest pressure of national ideology.