Contents -- Note on Pronunciation and Foreign Language Terms -- Chronology -- Maps -- 1. Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationhood -- 2. The First Strife: The Crisis of the 1930s, War, and the Cease-Fire of the 1960 -- 3. The Other Serbia: The Serbian Church in the Communist Federation -- 4. The Catholic Church and the Making of the Croatian Nation, 1970-1984 -- 5. The Bosnian Ulema and Muslim Nationalism -- 6. United We Stand, Divided We Fall: The Civil Religion of Brotherhood and Unity -- 7. Mary-making in Herzegovina: From Apparitions to Partitions -- 8. Flames and Shrines: The Serbian Church and Serbian Nationalist Movement in the 1980s -- 9. The Second Strife: Religion as the Catalyst of the Crisis in the 1980s and 1990s -- 10. Religion as Hallmark of Nationhood -- 11. The Twilight of Balkan Idols -- 12. Conclusions -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Photo gallery.