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Religion and Ethnic Conflict in the South Slavic Area (Sociological and Socio-Historic Notes)
Josip Kumpes
; Institut za migracije i narodnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Primarily from a sociological and socio-historic standpoint the paper deals with the inter-connection between religion and ethnic conflict in the South Slavic area. It treats concrete historical religions (and confessions) and ethnic groups as real, complex and contradictory phenomena. However, the paper does not deal with this systematically, but rather only indicates certain points which provide somewhat a paradigmatic illustration of the genesis and structure of the problem (and the conflicts) linked with the relationship between religion and ethnicity. The religious and ethnic mosaic of the South Slav area is in many ways specific. On a relatively small area many peoples, cultures, religions and socio-political formations come into contact. Religious conflicts through the centuries (e.g. between Islam and Christianity, between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy) have significantly effected the present picture of inter-confessional and inter-ethnic relations. As in the past, so too in most of the recent and present political and ethnic tensions and conflicts, a greater or lesser role of religion (and confessions) has been practically inevitable, and in practically all “cases” the basic reason of conflict has derived from the equalizing of religious and ethnic/national affiliations. From this one can deduce that cultural and religious pluralism, as well as ethnic pluralism – likewise in the modern (post-socialist) societies in the South Slav area – should be considered as possible factors in enriching human and social life, but also as possible factors of conflict. Lessening the assumptions of discord due to the equalisation of religious and ethnic identities is a challenge in most post-socialist South Slav societies. The out-come in many respects depends on a (self-)understanding of the place and role of “revitalised” (traditional) religion (and religious culture) as well as on religious organisations in changed socio-regimal surroundings.
Ključne riječi
religion; ethnic conflict; ethnic identity; ethnic group; pluralism
Hrčak ID:
127295
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.7.1992.
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