Learning from Bosnia Approaching Tradition |
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| Author:
| Mahmutcehajic, Rusmir |
| Foreword by:
| Seligman, Adam |
| Series title: | Abrahamic Dialogues Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-2453-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2005 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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This book by one of Bosnia's most distinguished public intellectuals, 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 differing Christologies among people who speak the same language and share the same history has...
More DescriptionThis book by one of Bosnia's most distinguished public intellectuals, 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 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.