Credible Dialogue in BiH in a Context of Global Crisis Cover Image

Веродостојни дијалог у БиХ у контексту светске кризе
Credible Dialogue in BiH in a Context of Global Crisis

Author(s): Aleksandar Gajić
Subject(s): Governance, Politics and religion, Social differentiation, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Religion, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci
Keywords: Christianity and Islam; dialogue; Bosnia and Herzegovina; „conflict of civilizations“; tradition; global crisis;

Summary/Abstract: The work studies interreligious relations and constructive dialogue between Christians and Moslems in a context of world crisis as a crisis of modernity which epicenter is placed within western civilization. Having noticed motives of manipulative „crisis management“, as creating, amplifying, escalating, control and pacification of an interreligious conflict as a certain „conflict of civilizations“ by postmodern, neocolonial imperialism, the author focuses on manipulation with religious feelings in the case of Bosnian war, by the end of the 20th century. Having without doubt determined that the conflict was a political one and only sporadically a religious-civilisational one with considerable influence of neoimperial interfering using the rule „divide and rule“, it furthermore analyses interetnical and interreligious relations between Christians and Moslems in Bosnia and Balkans at the beginning of the 21st century. Having noticed the growth of religiousness in the whole area, and the growth of mutual confidence and a perspective that opens constructive dialgue, the work makes conclusion of being possible to gain consensus based on a „smallest common traditional denominator“, where religious and cultural identities would became a base of cooperation and approach, and not a conflict, and of possibility of building a social alternative to neocolonial order that rules this area on these bases, in a context of the crisis of modern West.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 219-229
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian