UDŽBENICI ISLAMSKOG, PRAVOSLAVNOG I KATOLIČKOG VERONAUKA U BIH
Textbooks for Religious Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina Is There a Place for Tolerance and Inter-Religious Dialogue?

Summary/Abstract: In this work, it was tried to analyze the textbooks for Islamic, Orthodox and Catholic religious education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We have started with the hypothesis that in the situation of living in multinational and multi-confessional society, textbooks for religious education should offer information not only about own, but also about other religions. Especially in society such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has paid high price during the war in 1990s, because of mutual misunderstandings and hatred. Our analysis has shown that the textbooks for Islamic and Orthodox religious education are purely confessional, for they strive to introduce children with their own faith and religious tradition. Although mainly confessional, textbooks for Catholic religious education, giving data about other religions and paying special stress to the importance of dialogue and tolerance, freedom and development of every person, improve general knowledge of pupils and enable their critical and personal improvement. Therefore these textbooks overcome the gaps of confessional approach to high extent. However, there is a problem how is this really implemented in school classes, taking into account that Catholicism is an important part of self-conciseness and separation of Croats from other constitutive people in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Answer to that question goes beyond this work.

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