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“Balkan Contextual Theology is a rich book, as polyphonic as is the Balkans that divides and unites. It is about liberated religions and nations after the collapse of Yugoslavia. This book is the first contex- tual and politically critical theology for the Balkans. Its theology is a model for other difficult regions.” Jürgen Moltmann, University in Tübingen, Germany “Balkan Contextual Theology introduces and explores the culturally rich religious traditions of the Western Balkans. A very significant con- tribution to Christian political theology. I highly recommend it.” Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, USA “Scholars of religion usually talk about the Balkans. This book lifts up the unique questions and challenges posed to theology from within the Balkans, as well as the particular cultural, historical, and intellectual resources for enriching theological thinking. With contributions from scholars across disciplines, this book offers a much needed and valua- ble contribution to contextual theology.” Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fordham University, USA Balkan Contextual Theology 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 pro- duced 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 neighbourhood, archetypes of “sacred warriors,” the experience of democratic jet lag, collective melancholy, and intergen- erational 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. 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. Routledge Studies in Religion Contrasts in Religion, Community, and Structure at Three Homeless Shelters Changing Lives Ines W. Jindra, Michael Jindra and Sarah DeGenero Enhancement Fit for Humanity Perspectives on Emerging Technologies Michael Baggot Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology Edited by Caesar A. Montevecchio and Gerard F. 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Contents Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Introduction: Balkan the Unifier and Balkan the Divider 1 STIPE ODAK AND ZORAN GROZDANOV PART I Religion, Politics, Identity 15 1 Religion and National/Ethnic Identity in the Balkans: Theological and Contextual Positions in Islam 17 ENES KARIĆ 2 Religion and National/Ethnic Identity in the Western Balkans: Serbian Orthodox Context 30 VUKAŠIN MILIĆEVIĆ 3 Ecumenism Divided: Christian Churches at the Fault Lines 45 RADMILA RADIĆ AND NEVEN VUKIĆ 4 IncarNation: On the Possibility of Balkan Contextual Theology 79 ZORAN GROZDANOV 5 Gender and Religion in the Balkans: The Example of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina 92 ZILKA SPAHIĆ ŠILJAK AND REBEKA JADRANKA ANIĆ 6 “Democratic Jet Lag” and EUgoslav YUtopias 119 DAVOR DŽALTO viii Contents PART II Violence, God, Memory 139 7 Prayer as the Curse: Religious Tabooisation of God 141 MARKO VUČETIĆ 8 The Balkan Love Triangle: God, Love, and Violence 156 VIKTOR IVANČIĆ AND DRAGO BOJIĆ 9 Theology in the Spirit of Palanka: Catechism of Croatian Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Ethnonationalist Imaginaries 172 BRANKO SEKULIĆ 10 Lost Bodies, Missing Persons, and Extended Mourning 183 JADRANKA BRNČIĆ 11 Identities Built on the Memory of Wrongdoing and Ecumenism of Compassion 197 IVAN ŠARČEVIĆ 12 The Grace of Not Remembering: Painful Memories and Their Theological Implications 215 MIROSLAV VOLF PART III Life, Culture, Longing 231 13 Inat, the Explosive Instinct of Freedom: Towards the Theology of Spite 233 AMILA KAHROVIĆ POSAVLJAK 14 Other God or God of the Other: Sevdah, Queer Laments, and the Balkan Religious Imaginary 243 MILJENKO JERGOVIĆ 15 Neither Exclusionary Religious Nationalisms, Nor Abstract Religious Humanisms: Belonging and Border-Living in the Balkans 255 SLAVICA JAKELIĆ Contents ix 16 Komšiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology 276 STIPE ODAK 17 The Rootless God: Theology of Emigrations 287 ALIDA BREMER AND IVANA BODROŽIĆ 18 Paradise Lost: Theology of Nostalgia and Hope 299 JOSIP NOVAKOVICH Index 310
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