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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785560403321

Autore

Mahmutćehajić Rusmir <1948->

Titolo

Learning from Bosnia : approaching tradition / / Rusmir Mahmutćehajić ; translated by Saba Risaluddin and Francis R. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2005

ISBN

0-8232-4808-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 171 pages)

Collana

The Abrahamic dialogues series, , 1548-4130 ; ; no. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

RisaluddinSaba

JonesFrancis R

Disciplina

306.0949742

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Bosnia and Hercegovina Ethnic relations

Bosnia and Hercegovina Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Learning from Bosnia""; ""Contents""; ""Authorâ€?s Note""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: The Achievement of Bosnia""; ""Chapter 1. The Forms of Expression of a Single Truth""; ""Chapter 2. Submissiveness, Emotion, and Knowledge""; ""Chapter 3. The Apprenticeship of Submission and Freedom""; ""Chapter 4. The Lower Horizons of Freedom""; ""Chapter 5. Pride and Humility""; ""Chapter 6. The Dispute over Names""; ""Chapter 7. The Word Held in Common""; ""Chapter 8. Wealth in Poverty""; ""Chapter 9. Other Gods but Him""; ""Chapter 10. Two Histories"";  ""Chapter 11. The Ideology of Nation"" ; ""Chapter 12. The Chasm of the Future""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This book, at the intersections of political sociology, political philosophy, and theology, reads the legacy of Bosnia as both a paradigm and an antiparadigm for the human condition. The adjective Bosnian sums up an acceptance of the diversity of human attitudes toward the world and toward God. Yet the Bosnian tradition of accepting the inevitability of, and thus the right to, differing Christologies among people who speak the same language and share the same history has been reduced to the antiparadigms of confessionalism, ethnicism, and ultimately nationalism, which seeks



either to expel or to subordinate to the majority everything that is other.