Original scientific paper
THE BOSNIAN CROSSROADS
Esad Ćimić
; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb
Abstract
The author presents his arguments against treating the war in
Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina as a religious war. Due to the fact
that religions are inevitably historically mediated, there is a possibility
of a smaller or greater departure from the original religious prlnciples.
This discrepancy, on the other hand, is mostly a result of
historical circumstances, which - depend ing on the degree of resistance
of the given religious community - succumb to the
temptation of their own complete degradation. Catholics have the
most shaped intellectual formation of theists. The Orthodox religion
is more a fact of custom and less that of a spiritual attitude
and speculative relation, while in the Islamic religion secularity and
spirituality are more intertwined than in other religions. Although
the interpretative framework of the scale of values pertaining to the
mentioned religious communities requires additional research, the
author explains his sociological findings within the scope of three
determinist parameters: (a) awareness of interreligious conflicts
later in the future and especially in the near future; (b) perception
of interreligious origins of the convert (Muslim) and (c) degree of
congeniality in language, customs, folklore, verbal tradition and
literature. The congeniality and identity of the scale of values of
Catholics and Muslims is first of all the result of historical circumstances
and also the remoteness from the Orthodox religion. It is
evident that the Muslims and Catholics have three identical values
in terms of position on the scale. The specific predicament of Muslims
throughout history and in the current situation has brought
about an essential difference with regard to the first value. On the
other hand, the first value of the Orthodox is a category which does
not appear in Catholics and Muslims at all.
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32884
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Publication date:
1.11.1994.
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