Balkan Contextual Theology

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

Vukasin 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 Siljak

6. "Democratic Jet-Lag" and EUgoslav Yutopias

Davor Dzalto

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 Sarcevic

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. Komsiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology

Stipe Odak

17. The Rootless God - Theology of Emigrations

Alida Bremer and Ivana Bodrozic

18. Paradise Lost: Theology of Nostalgia and Hope

Josip Novakovich