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Table of Contents

  
        Guide to Pronunciation                             
        Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition             
        Preface to the 1996 Edition                       
I       Fire in the Pages                                  
2       Christ Killers                                    
3       Performing the Passion                            
4       Masks of Otherness                                
5       The Virgin and the Jewel of Herzegovina           
6       Masks of Complicity                              
7       The Bridge                                       
        Note on Sources                                  
        Notes                                            
        Recommended Readings                             
       Index  

About the Author

Michael A. Sells is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Religion at Haverford College. He is the author of several books on religion, including Mystical Languages of Unsaying (1994).

Reviews

"Sells's well-written, impassioned, and informed book represents a deepening of the ongoing discourse about the collapse of Yugoslavia."--"Kirkus Reviews

"Sells's well-written, impassioned, and informed book represents a deepening of the ongoing discourse about the collapse of Yugoslavia."--"Kirkus Reviews