THE PARADOXES OF BOSNIAN DENOMINATIONALISM
THE PARADOXES OF BOSNIAN DENOMINATIONALISM
Author(s): Ivan LovrenovićSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Međunarodni forum Bosna
Keywords: identification; relgion; the bases of intolerance; ethno-religious communities during the Ottoman period in Bosnia and Herzegovina; mutually intolerant; pre-modern ethnoreligious communities; democratic system
Summary/Abstract: The author sees the bases of intolerance as lying within Bosnia, in the pre-modern division of society into ethno-religious communities during the Ottoman period. Lovrenović implies that tolerance lies in a rapprochement between religion and modernity. This, Lovrenović argues, began to take place during the later Communist years; but when a multi-party system permitted political identification along religious lines, Bosnian-Herzegovinan society reverted to a set of mutually intolerant, pre-modern ethnoreligious communities. The solution, Lovrenović cautiously proposes, lies in a truly democratic system, which will allow "the spiritual and individual dimensions of religion [to] prevail over ethno-cultural and group identification".
Journal: Forum Bosnae
- Issue Year: 2001
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 69-77
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English
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