Professional paper
SAVA BJELANOVIĆ AND HIS FRACTION IN THE SERBIAN PARTY OF DALMATIA DURING THE 1880S (RELIGIOUS ASPECTS)
Tihomir RAJČIĆ
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to portray religious attitudes of Sava Bjelanović and his fractionwithin the Serbian Party in Austrian Dalmatia during the 1880s. Therefore, authore xamines »progressive « views of this fraction and its attitude towards Catholic Church and Croats. Moreover, author emphasizes Sava Bjelovanović’s efforts to defi ne Serbian nation disjointedly of Orthodoxy, which caused hostilities within the conservative fraction in the Serbian Party and misunderstanding of Serbs outside of Dalmatia. Author’s examination showed that Bjelovanović and his followers of liberal-radical ideas, in spite of their efforts in the party’s organs and high ranking in the party’s structure, did not have strong support among social structure and population. Therefore, in this period Serbian national movement did not separate from the Orthodoxy, as Bjelanović and his supporters desired.
Keywords
Dalmatia; history of the nineteenth century; political history; Sava Bjelanović; Serbian Party
Hrčak ID:
9068
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2006.
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