Paul Sifler, a Slovenian-American composer, teacher, and organist was employed in both New York City and Hollywood, California. He earned degrees from the Chicago Conservatory and spent the majority of his career at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Hollywood and Temple Sinai, Glenda…
Current analyses focusing on the relations between the government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovenian Catholic Church cannot fully account for Slovenian citizens’ reporting of secular tendencies in social surveys. I supplement state-centric analyses with an anthropolog…
This dissertation explores the link between Catholicism and the contemporary identities of Bosnian Croats, Croatian Croats, and Slovenes. I ask why and how religion, specifically Catholicism, has remained an important public institution in some but not in all studied societies, …
Recently, ethnicity has received greater attention from international conflict scholars. This study explores a new aspect of how ethnic composition of states and the power of ethnic kin affect external state interventions in ethnic conflicts. Here it is hypothesized that states …