RELIGIJA U SUVREMENOM BOSANSKOHERCEGOVAČKOM DRUŠTVENOM PROSTORU – KLJUČNI IZAZOVI
Religion in BH social space – key challenges and tensions

Summary/Abstract: Secularization of social life together with the rise of modern science and technology, industrialization and religious pluralism determined two worldhistorical tendencies within western modern culture: enlightenment and reformation. Still, it seems that today everywhere except in Western Europe, secularization is giving space to de-secularization. Although in various geographical, religious and economical contexts within specific cultural and social environments the role of religion in public life is becoming more important everywhere in the world. This topic is particularly treated in the book The Desecularization of the World; Resurgent Religion and World Politics, edited by sociologist Peter L. Berger. Although our regional Bosnian and Herzegovinian context fits into the world’s trend of revitalization of religion, it is also characterized by certain specific challenges and tensions. These challenges in our social environment are indeed many: we are burdened by disintegrated political divisions, which are struggling to finish the unfinished war ‘for’ and ‘against’ Bosnia and Herzegovina; the gap between corruptive and autocrat ethno-politics and Euro-integrative democratic political notions reflect in tight relationship between religions and national identities of Bosniaks, Croats and Serbs, and which culminates with the abuse of religion in undeveloped legal culture of religious practice within the political and institutional public space.

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