Balkan Idols: Religion and Nationalism in Yugoslav States () is a book by Vjekoslav Perica. It was first published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.

The book explores the political roles of different religious organisations in the republics of the former Yugoslavia. Balkan Idols was described as a significant work in several reviews in academic journals.

Reception

Balkan Idols was praised by Josip Mocnik in Contemporary Church History Quarterly as "masterfully written and extensively researched". Writing for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Franke Wilmer described the book as a "remarkably balanced" work that shows "how socially and politically destructive the volatile interplay between fundamentalism and the magnification of unresolved or unreconciled narratives of victimization... can be."