Maria Falina is Assistant Professor of Political History and the Politics of the Past at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is the editor of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflicts and Memory (2018, co-edited with Judith Devlin and John Paul Newman) and author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I and II (2016 and 2018 respectively, co-authored with Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski).

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Religion and Serbian State- and Nation-building before 1918 2. New Church for the New State: ‘Liberation and Unification’ of Lands, People and Institutions 3. The Serbian Orthodox Church Faces the Challenge of Modernity 4. Climax: The Serbian Orthodox Church Enters Politics 5. Epilogue: The War Bibliography Index

Refreshing …Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia is an essential work for historians of South East Europe and will be of great interest to scholars of secularism, political religions and nationalism.

Maria Falina is Assistant Professor of Political History and the Politics of the Past at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is the editor of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflicts and Memory (2018, co-edited with Judith Devlin and John Paul Newman) and author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I and II (2016 and 2018 respectively, co-authored with Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski).

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Religion and Serbian State- and Nation-building before 1918 2. New Church for the New State: ‘Liberation and Unification’ of Lands, People and Institutions 3. The Serbian Orthodox Church Faces the Challenge of Modernity 4. Climax: The Serbian Orthodox Church Enters Politics 5. Epilogue: The War Bibliography Index

Refreshing …Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia is an essential work for historians of South East Europe and will be of great interest to scholars of secularism, political religions and nationalism.

Maria Falina is Assistant Professor of Political History and the Politics of the Past at Utrecht University, Netherlands. She is the editor of World War I in Central and Eastern Europe: Politics, Conflicts and Memory (2018, co-edited with Judith Devlin and John Paul Newman) and author of A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, vols. I and II (2016 and 2018 respectively, co-authored with Balázs Trencsényi, Michal Kopecek, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelcic, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski).

• Acknowledgements Introduction1. Religion and Serbian State- and Nation-building before 1918 2. New Church for the New State: ‘Liberation and Unification’ of Lands, People and Institutions 3. The Serbian Orthodox Church Faces the Challenge of Modernity 4. Climax: The Serbian Orthodox Church Enters Politics 5. Epilogue: The War Bibliography Index

Refreshing …Religion and Politics in Interwar Yugoslavia is an essential work for historians of South East Europe and will be of great interest to scholars of secularism, political religions and nationalism.