ABSTRACT
The last conflict in the former Yugoslavia showed that the ethnonationalist narrative, which has also affected religious structures, could not be adequately observed if the concept of palanka as it is presented in the book Filosofija palanke (Philosophy of Parochialism) by Radomir Konstantinović was not taken into account. This Serbian writer and philosopher, by deconstructing the “state of mind” of society in Serbia of the 60s, created a monumental work that became a universally applicable and inevitable theory, which running straight through the very essence of social life in the entire former Yugoslavia. This chapter outlines the very nature of the challenges encountered by any initiative that faces this palankial aspect of “spirituality.”
