Learning from Bosnia: Approaching Tradition

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.