Balkan Contextual Theology

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-72288-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion

This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology. By embracing culturally rich traditions of the Western Balkans as its starting point, it explores their existential and theological bearings. Placed at the crossroads of civilisations and religions, this region has witnessed some of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. At the same time, it has produced unique textures of inter-cultural life. The volume addresses some of the most poignant phenomena endemic to the region, such as sevdalinka music, intimate forms of neighborhood, archetypes of ‘sacred warriors,’ the experience of democratic jet lag, collective melancholy, and intergenerational trauma. As the first book of this nature, it aims to encourage further development of contextual theological thinking in the region and promote its international reception.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Odak, Stipe

Grozdanov, Zoran

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Balkan the Unifier and Balkan the Divider

Stipe Odak and Zoran Grozdanov

Part I: Religion, Politics, Identity

1. Religion and National/Ethnic Identity – Theological and Contextual Positions in Islam

Enes Karic

2. Religion and National/Ethnic Identity – Theological and Contextual Positions in Orthodoxy

Vukašin Milicevic

3. Divided Ecumenism – Christian Churches at the Fault Lines

Radmila Radic and Neven Vukic

4. IncarNation: On the Possibilities of Balkan Contextual Theology

Zoran Grozdanov

5. Gender and Religion in The Balkans: The Example of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rebeka Anic and Zilka Spahic Šiljak

6. "Democratic Jet-Lag" and EUgoslav Yutopias

Davor Džalto

Part II: Violence, God, Memory

7. Prayer as the Curse: Religious Tabooization of God

Marko Vucetic

8. Balkan Love Triangle – God, Love, and Violence

Drago Bojic and Viktor Ivancic

9. Theology in the Spirit of Palanka: Catechism of Croatian Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Ethnonationalist Imaginaries

Branko Sekulic

10. Lost Bodies, Missing Persons and Extended Mourning

Jadranka Brncic

11. Identities Built on the Memory of Wrongdoing and Ecumenism of Compassion

Ivan Šarcevic

12. The Grace of Not Remembering: Painful Memories and Their Theological Implications

Miroslav Volf

Part III: Culture, Life, Longing

13. Inat, the Explosive Instinct of Freedom: Towards the Theology of Spite

Amila Kahrovic Posavljak

14. Other God or God of the Other: Sevdah, Queer Laments and the Balkan Religious Imagery

Miljenko Jergovic

15. Neither Exclusionary Religious Nationalisms, Nor Abstract Religious Humanisms: Belonging and Border-Living in the Balkans

Slavica Jakelic

16. Komšiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology

Stipe Odak

17. The Rootless God – Theology of Emigrations

Alida Bremer and Ivana Bodrožic

18. Paradise Lost: Theology of Nostalgia and Hope

Josip Novakovich

Über Autor(innen)

Stipe Odak is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

Zoran Grozdanov is an Assistant Professor at the University Centre for Protestant Theology Matthias Flacius Illyricus at the University in Zagreb, Croatia.