The forms of pluralism in the Balkans

For almost two centuries, the Western observers have viewed the Balkans as a site of conflicts and antagonisms among various religious and ethnic groups—the geopolitical and cultural border between the West and the East, between Western and Eastern Christianity, between Islam and Christianity. 

PLURITANS seeks to complicate these perceptions and narratives about the Balkans as a region burdened by history, to uncover the many sides of Balkan pluralism.

Interdisciplinary in character, public in direction, and pedagogically minded, PLURITANS will examine the meanings and manifestations of intra-religious, interreligious, and religious-secular pluralisms in the Balkans.

living

It will explore how pluralist modes of living in the region are shaped by, but not reducible to, post-communist legacies, and how they are intertwined with, yet not determined by, national identities.

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difference

Generously supported by the Templeton Religion Trust, the project is placed at the Center for Protestant Theology Matija Vlačić Ilirik, University of Zagreb. It is directed by Zoran Grozdanov, Slavica Jakelić, and Nebojša Zelič.