Simboli građanske religije – kako se određuju i koriste - primjer Bosne i Hercegovine
The Symbols of the Civil Religion – how they are determined and used – the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Within a hundred years, from the end of 19th century to the end of 20th century, Bosnia and Herzegovina had four different emblems and flags as the matter of supreme sovereignty in newly established social relations. In this paper, the third such process is analysed through the prism of symbols of a civic religion everyone identified with, although they did not take part in their selection. Unlike in other countries, the emblem and flag of BiH assigned at the third selection are not sacralised and totemised only through national rituals of commemorations, sports and representation, but primarily through a bloody war, destruction and genocide, wherefore the discussion on them is unrewarding and sensitive, which should not refer to the study of method of their attainment. The use of emblem is also analysed through examples of notaphily and numismatics, as the most frequent official graphics, used to symbolically transfer political and ideological messages to domestic and international public. Such messages are almost everywhere simple, unambiguous and in compliance with statutory solutions, and analysis of banknote material shows what they were like in BiH.

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