Original scientific paper
Christian churches on the path of christian reconciliation? (by example of the relationship between the Catholic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church according to the „attainments” of the last war in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Ivan Markešić
orcid.org/0000-0002-5067-1676
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Abstract
Judging by the events in Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian society in the last thirty years, it is possible to notice that the Catholic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church – as two major national sacred systems – have had a significant role in directing not only the social processes but the political as well. However, it is questionable how much good, and how much harm, these and such two politically coloured guidelines have brought to these societies, especially when it comes to building trust and good inter-ethnic, and consequently inter-religious, relationships.
How closely both Churches (the Catholic and Serbian Orthodox) are connected to recent political developments in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially when talking about the Republika Srpska, the author will show by the example of these two Churches in Bosnia and Herzegovina, relying on Mardešić’s texts, and he will try to point out the main paths by which these two Churches should go in order to achieve the desired reconciliation in this area. In the introduction the author briefly describes contemporary social-religious situation in Europe and in Croatia; then he bases his analysis of these relationships on Mardešić’s texts about political religion and the ways that lead to Christian reconciliation.
Keywords
Željko Mardešić/Jakov Jukić; political religions; modernity; Christianity; Catholic Church; Serbian Orthodox Church; pacifism
Hrčak ID:
192657
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2017.
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