RELIGIONS AND NATIONS AS FACTORS OF DIVISIONS AND DESINTEGRATION IN THE BALKANS
RELIGIONS AND NATIONS AS FACTORS OF DIVISIONS AND DESINTEGRATION IN THE BALKANS

Author(s): Ivan Cvitković
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Politics and religion, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: religion; nation; divisions; Bosnia and Herzegovina; crime; integrative and disintegrative role
Summary/Abstract: Differences in the approach of theologians and sociologists to religion. Why is there no critical approach to religion in today's sociology? About overestimating an integrative role of religion in society. Does the disintegrative role of religion and nation replace this role in the global, networked, informational society? Such national and confessionally complex societies are also in the area of ex. Yugoslavia. The Bal-kans as the "limit of curse" amongst religions and confessions. Do we overlook the role of religion as a ca-pital for social changes? Religious and national situation in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the 2013 census. The data show that religion and nations act integratively (homogenisingly) within a national-confessional group, but also disintegratively (distancing) towards members of other na-tional confessional groups. Has multiconfessional and multinational Bosnia and Herzegovina become a past? Societies in which religion is not a force of peace and stability, but a source of tension and conflicts. Religion as a factor of conflict and separation (from others). Religion can also divide the members of the same national community. Different interpretation of the past, especially war events, as a source of divisions. Divisions within the same religion. Does a sociologist need to deal with them? Nationalism as a source of divisions. The role of intellectuals in the emergence and leader-ship of nationalism. The Balkan market of nationalisms. Croatian, Bosniak and Serbian nationalism. The nation and religion can serve as a source of violence. Violence expressed in "ethnic cleansing". Violence over cultural goods. When religious and national divisions lead to a crime. What is the relationship of religious communities to victims, crimes and criminals? Today's situation.

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