Balkan Contextual Theology

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.

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 Karić

2. Religion and National/Ethnic Identity – Theological and Contextual Positions in Orthodoxy

Vukašin Milićević

3. Divided Ecumenism – Christian Churches at the Fault Lines

Radmila Radić and Neven Vukić

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 Anić and Zilka Spahić Šiljak

6. "Democratic Jet-Lag" and EUgoslav Yutopias

Davor Džalto

Part II: Violence, God, Memory

7. Prayer as the Curse: Religious Tabooization of God

Marko Vučetić

8. Balkan Love Triangle – God, Love, and Violence

Drago Bojić and Viktor Ivančić

9. Theology in the Spirit of Palanka: Catechism of Croatian Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Ethnonationalist Imaginaries

Branko Sekulić

10. Lost Bodies, Missing Persons and Extended Mourning

Jadranka Brnčić

11. Identities Built on the Memory of Wrongdoing and Ecumenism of Compassion

Ivan Šarčević

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 Kahrović Posavljak

14. Other God or God of the Other: Sevdah, Queer Laments and the Balkan Religious Imagery

Miljenko Jergović

15. Neither Exclusionary Religious Nationalisms, Nor Abstract Religious Humanisms: Belonging and Border-Living in the Balkans

Slavica Jakelić

16. Komšiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology

Stipe Odak

17. The Rootless God – Theology of Emigrations

Alida Bremer and Ivana Bodrožić

18. Paradise Lost: Theology of Nostalgia and Hope

Josip Novakovich