Pregledni rad
Are religious leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina open to new challenges
Mato Zovkić
; Univerzitet u Sarajevu - Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Sažetak
The author offers an analysis of the activities of religious leaders in Bosnia
and Herzegovina and their professional collaborators at the level of religious instruction
in public schools, encouraging their fellow believers to contribute to the common
good in a pluralistic society, and raising a prophetic voice in the face of injustice and
corruption in their society. Since ethnic and religious identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina
overlap, Muslim, Orthodox and Catholic religious leaders rightly feel a responsibility
to intervene publicly when the rights and needs of members of their ethnic
community are threatened. The author advances the view that religious leaders are
not sufficiently courageous when it comes to promoting interethnic and interreligious
trust and forgiveness on the part of their fellow believers. The author also argues that
religious leaders are too cautious, waiting for the International Community and for
elected domestic politicians to make the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina more just
and more functional for all its citizens through political reform. Together with the German
Catholic champion of interreligious dialogue, Hansjörg Schmid, the author advocates
a model for an interreligious social ethic.
Ključne riječi
religious leaders and their collaborators; confessional religious instruction in public schools; contribution to common good; overlapping of religious and ethnic identities in BiH; Muslims; Orthodox; Catholics; Jews; Reformed Christians; International Community; model of an interreligious social ethic.
Hrčak ID:
266495
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.1.2013.
Posjeta: 849 *