Od religijskog do nacionalnog identiteta i natrag (na primjeru Bosne i Hercegovine)
From Religious to National Identity and Back (The Example of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the author analyses the importance of religion in constituting national identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the importance of national belonging in confirming religious identity (Bosniak = Muslim, Croat = Catholic, Serb = Orthodox). The discussion regarding the relationship between the national and the religious and their mutual permeation is positioned by the author within the framework of contemporary debates on secularisation and the “unexpected” return of religion into the field of secular, and the national into the field of sacral, as well as contemporary debates on nation and nationalism. The author gives special attention to Bosnia and Herzegovina in which both processes of mutual permeation and complementation of the religious and national took and are taking place as well as the processes of sacralisation of nation, but also nationalisation of religion. The author includes in the discussion his thoughts on political religion, its development and general characteristics, its meanings in contemporary societies and especially its realisation in terms of content in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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