Description: The atrocities in Bosnia-Herzegovina stunned people throughout the world. With Holocaust memories still painfully vivid, we ask how this savagery is possible. Michael Sells answers by demonstrating that the Bosnian conflict is not simply a civil war or a feud of age-old adversaries. It is, he says, a systematic campaign of genocide fueled by Christian religious mythologies. Drawing on historical documents, unpublished United Nations reports, articles from Serbian and Bosnian media, and personal contacts in the region, Sells reveals religion's central role in the Bosnian tragedy, and he makes clear how much is at stake for the entire world in the struggle to preserve Bosnia's existence as a multireligious society.

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