Ilirizam bosanskih franjevaca: sekularno, estetsko, sveto
The Illyrianism of the Bosnian Franciscans: Secular, Aesthetic, Sacred

Author(s): Marina Protrka Štimec
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Cultural history, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Franjevačka teologija Sarajevo
Keywords: Bosnian Franciscans; Ivan Franjo Jukić; literature; Illyrianism; social reforms; community;
Summary/Abstract: In the nineteenth century the Bosnian Franciscans were bearers of modernization and cultural emancipation in their own country. Engaged in various disciplines and fields, as is seen in the case of Ivan Franjo Jukić, they fostered cultural and political development – including autonomisation in the literary field (as P. Bourdieu defines it), and connected it with broader social emancipatory tendencies. Culture as a secular field in the modernist movements overtakes the sacred (A. Assman): by analogy to religious practices,literature develops its canonical formation – naming distinguished authors, standardizing norms and values that could potentially mobilise and discipline a community. The hybrid nature of the cultural and political movement in the Illyrian movement helped the Bosnian Franciscans articulate their own polyvalent heterogeneous identity, which was continuously filtrated through unjust social relations and disposable emancipatory strategies in line with necessary social reforms.

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