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The Ambivalence of Medjugorje

Wiinikka-Lydon, Joseph
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violence
catholic social doctrine
war crimes
nationalism
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Political ethics
Ethics of political systems
Ethics of law
Rights based legal ethics
Peace ethics
Governance and ethics
Development ethics
Christian denominations
Roman Catholic
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Catholic Ethics
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Focusing on the use of Marian imagery from Medjugorje during the Bosnian War (1992- 1995), and employing R. Scott Appleby’s use of the concept, sacred ambivalence, this essay will examine how a religious image proclaiming peace can also support violence and war. It will show that a Croat nationalist ideology at work during the war interpreted Mary’s peace through a hermeneutic of violence, where violence was necessary to restore peace – defined under this ideology as a landscape of political, religious, and cultural homogeneity.
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2010
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