BOSANSKA RASKRIŽJA
THE BOSNIAN CROSSROADS

Summary/Abstract: The author presents his arguments against treating the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as a religious war. Due to the fact that religions are inevitably historically mediated, there is a possibility of a smaller or greater departure from the original religious prlnciples. This discrepancy, on the other hand, is mostly a result of historical circumstances, which - depend ing on the degree of resistance of the given religious community - succumb to the temptation of their own complete degradation. Catholics have the most shaped intellectual formation of theists. The Orthodox religion is more a fact of custom and less that of a spiritual attitude and speculative relation, while in the Islamic religion secularity and spirituality are more intertwined than in other religions. Although the interpretative framework of the scale of values pertaining to the mentioned religious communities requires additional research, the author explains his sociological findings within the scope of three determinist parameters: (a) awareness of interreligious conflicts later in the future and especially in the near future; (b) perception of interreligious origins of the convert (Muslim) and (c) degree of congeniality in language, customs, folklore, verbal tradition and literature.

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