PITANJE IZBORA U NACIONALNOM I RELIGIJSKOM ODREĐENJU
THE ISSUE OF CHOICE IN NATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS DEFINITION

Summary/Abstract: Identity! Highly necessary for people and their communities as the ability of identification or subjective insight into their own existence. We find ourselves in the forms of life that we project in the individual and the social sphere of life, sometimes with such passion that we forget that we ourselves are the subjects of identification. In other words, the identity is the contextual projection in individual and social consciousness that becomes a part of ourselves, on the basis of which we determine the whole range of our thoughts, acts and expectations. Awareness and consistency in the construction of identity are often very difficult, both for the individual and the social group. In addition, it is also a never-ending job, because there is no final, completed, once and for all defined identity. Except, however, when it comes to the physics of our bodies (even it shows variability of identity); actually, there is a constant search for identity. Human history is seeking, finding or occasionally identifying, losing that identity and searching all over again. With identity, simply, we cannot be certain! In such a context (the context of relativity and specific causes of genesis, development, modification and eventual disappearance) the national and religious identity should be monitored as well. Neither we observe any nation or religion as metaphysical forms of existence nor as natural or divine entities; in any case, we do not see nation or religion as once and for all defined entities where all people belong unreservedly, in general, a priori. On the contrary, we believe that national and religious identities are only some of the essential identities in life which do not completely define identity of people and their communities. This text discusses the modalities of national and religious identity interference and, within these modalities, the question of (individual and collective) choice.

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