Book Reviews 189 1990s affected the sense of belonging of migrants from the former Yugoslavia in Britain. It also has the merit of giving pride of place to the complexity of individual identities, challenging prefabricated labels imposed by institutional actors to classify migrants. This is timely and relevant giv- en the current migration crisis. However, the book does have certain regrettable shortcomings. Methodologically, it does not explain whether and how interviews and surveys differ, nor what questions were asked and how they were analysed. Moreover, the fact that extracts from sur- vey participants and interviews are not contextualised and that ethnic identity re- ceived so much of the author’s atention makes the illustrated nuances less power- ful in challenging and problematising es- sentialist visions of transnational ties and diasporas. Sara Bernard (Glasgow) Gorana Ognjenović and Jasna Jozelić, eds, Politicization of Religion. The Power of Symbolism. The Case of Former Yu- goslavia and its Successor States, New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2014 (Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy). 223 pp., ISBN 978-1-137-48412-3, $106.99 Gorana Ognjenović and Jasna Jozelić, eds, Politicization of Religion. The Power of State, Nation, and Faith. The Case of Former Yugoslavia and its Succes- sor States, New York: Palgrave Macmil- lan 2014 (Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy). 226 pp., ISBN 978- 1-137-48413-0, $106.99 In two volumes, Gorana Ognjenović and Jasna Jozelić scrutinize the (re)appearance of religions in the public sphere within the states that re-emerged from former Yugoslavia. The first volume focusses on the counterfeiting of religious symbols and their use or abuse in politics, while the second volume underlines the significance of religions and confessions to develop national identities. Those things became especially important when Yugoslavia col- lapsed in a bloody war that had not been expected within ‘Europe’ as it approached its third millennium. The existing religions in Yugoslavia were bound up with the wars, as their symbols, their representa- tives and their objectives were politicized by the war leaders in their atempts to mo- bilize the different nationalities for politi- cal and military goals. Hence in both West and East Europe the impression arose and indeed was intentionally fostered that the Yugoslav wars were ‘religious wars’. Even more than twenty years after the wars’ end, the discussion remains in progress. Still today, when Slovenia and Croatia are in the European Union and other states are keen for EU-membership, governments and politicians still misuse religion to ‘explain’ present dysfunction of political institutions, weakness of social systems and economic failure. This argu- mentation successfully reaches the societies in the Yugoslav ‘successor states’ as they are far from being secularized. On the con- trary, religion is much more present in the public sphere there than it is in the West, as sociological surveys reveal. So religion, religious values, and conflict with religious implications have a clear impact on socie- ties there. Alas, that is not common knowl- edge in the secular ‘West’, so that the books, with their questions and explanations enter a very interesting field and argue in a meth- odologically innovative way. In accordance with Keith Tester’s plea for a differentiated sociological approach to the Yugoslav case study, the bulk of the authors apply socio- logical methods and analyses. But rather