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 * Placing the national belonging ahead of any religious belonging was a political act witht the aim of popular mobilisation. - p. 190
 * The internal religious divide between Catholic, Christian Orthodox and Muslim Albanians, coupled with the threat of incoming ethnoreligious mobilisation in the neighborhood as noted by Hupchick, pressed the leaders of the Albanian Rebirth Movement to construct the idea of ethnic and national belonging as the supreme identity signifier in the ethnonationalist discourse. - p 185, 186
 * Such supreme value of supra-religious, national identity was projected ... - p. 186
 * ... Frasheri and ideologists from the National Rebirth Movement were compelled to produce an idealised depiction of Albanians as being too ancient and  too autochthonous to be identified with any religious belonging -  p 187, 188
 * Hence the myth of Albanian 'indifference to religion‘ which, according to Malcolm, represents one of the "essential characteristics imputed to the Albanians"... - p 187
 * Pashko Vasa.... the poem attaches two important negative connotations of the religion: (a) it is of an alien extract (b) it is the source of ethnic/national divide - p 190
 * Placing the national belonging ahead of any religious belonging was a political act witht the aim of popular mobilisation. - p. 190
 * Mythifying the Albanians : A Historiographical Discussion on Vasa Efendi’s “Albania and the Albanians” - Uğur Bahadır Bayraktar
 * - already mentioned as source at AfD
 * Exercising power: the role of religions in concord and conflict : based on papers read at the Symposium on Exercising Power : the Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict held at Åbo, Finland, on 17-19 August 2005 - CECILIE ENDRESEN Tension as Taboo Albania's Self-image as a Haven of Religious Tolerance
 * Exercising power: the role of religions in concord and conflict : based on papers read at the Symposium on Exercising Power : the Role of Religions in Concord and Conflict held at Åbo, Finland, on 17-19 August 2005 - CECILIE ENDRESEN Tension as Taboo Albania's Self-image as a Haven of Religious Tolerance