Project leaders and contributors publications 2023-2025
Jakelić, Slavica, Pluralizing Humanism: Religions and Secularisms Beyond Power, London&New York: Routledge, 2025.
https://www.routledge.com/Pluralizing-Humanism-Religions-and-Secularisms-Beyond-Power/Jakelic/p/book/9781032151083
Marietta van der Toll, Petr Kratochvil, Sophia Johnson, and Zoran Grozdanov (eds.), The Many Faces of Christianism: The ‘Russian World’ in Europe, Brill, Leiden, 2025.
https://brill.com/display/title/72381?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopSUtcreGqBCPg2T-g01gZbG6LIHGJyyLMMYvJzwA4KF3lC8h-S
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Echoes of Change: Advancing Gender Equality in Higher Education in the Balkans: TPO, BiH, 2025.
http://tpo.ba/b/dokument/Echoes%20of%20Change%20(TPO%202025)%20web%20kor%2012-3-25.pdf
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, The Price of Impure Blood: Cultural and Economic Factors of Menstruation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: TPO, BiH, 2025.
http://tpo.ba/b/dokument/CIJENA-NECISTE-KRVI-ENGLESKI.pdf
Šeba, E., Zrinščak, S.. Protestantske zajednice u Hrvatskoj. Struktura, fokus, vitalnost. Zagreb: Teološki fakultet „Matija Vlačić Ilirik“, 2025.
https://www.tfmvi.hr/proizvod/enoh-seba-i-sinisa-zrinscak-protestantske-zajednice-u-hrvatskoj-struktura-fokus-vitalnost/
Jakelić, Slavica, I sloboda i pripadanje: Eseji o religiji, nacionalizmu, i solidarnosti (Both Freedom and Belonging: Essays on Religion, Nationalism, and Solidarity), Zagreb, TIM Press, 2024.
https://www.tim-press.hr/en/books/both-freedom-and-belonging/
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Gender Equality Barometer of Bosnia and Herzegovina, UNDP, BiH, 2024.
https://www.undp.org/bosnia-herzegovina/publications/gender-equality-barometer-bosnia-and-herzegovina
Sekulić, Branko. The Theology of Ethnocultural Empathic Turn: To the Core of Sacralized Crime. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Fortress Press, 2024.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/theology-of-ethnocultural-empathic-turn-9781978716629/
(translated as Sekulić, Branko. Prodor u srce sakraliziranog zločina. Beograd: XX. vek, 2024.)
https://bibliotekaxxvek.com/prikaz-knjige-prodor-u-srce-sakralnog-zlocina/
Veković, Marko, Religija i politika u Srbiji. Između teorije i prakse [Religion and Politics in Serbia. Between Theory and Practice.] Belgrade: Faculty of Political Science & Čigoja štampa, 2024.
Gavran Miloš, Ana and Zelič, Nebojša, Filozofija dobrobiti, Rijeka, Filozofski fakultet u Rijeci, 2024
https://repository.ffri.uniri.hr/islandora/object/ffri:4121
Djurić Milovanović, Aleksandra, The Untold Journey of the Nazarene Emigration from Yugoslavia to North America. Rowan&Littlefield: Lanham, 2024.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/untold-journey-of-the-nazarene-emigration-from-yugoslavia-to-north-america-9781666922769/
Odak, Stipe and Grozdanov, Zoran (eds.), Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction, Routledge, London and New York, 2023.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003157915/balkan-contextual-theology-stipe-odak-zoran-grozdanov
Translated in Croatian as Balkanska kontekstualna teologija, Ex libris, Rijeka, 2023.
https://knjiga.hr/balkanska-kontekstualna-teologija-zoran-grozdanov-ur-1
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Voices of Youth: Gender Equality and Social Cohesion in Western Balkans, UN Women Albania, 2023.
https://albania.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/publications/2023/09/voices-of-youth-gender-equality-and-social-cohesion-in-the-western-balkans
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Mainstreaming of Gender Equality at Universities in the Balkans. Fighting Gender-based Violence. Scholars Press, 2023.
https://www.amazon.com/Mainstreaming-Gender-Equality-Universities-Balkans/dp/6205523949
Grozdanov, Zoran, Domovina slikana tamjanom: teologija nacionalnog identiteta, Ex libris, Rijeka, 2023.
https://knjiga.hr/domovina-slikana-tamjanom-zoran-grozdanov-1
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Feminist Spirituality’ as Lived Religion. In Bano, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206587
Sekulić, Branko. “Orthodoxy: The Art of War – The Case of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Former Yugoslavia.” In Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Interfaith in an Age of Political Extremism and Religious Fundamentalism, edited by A. Berger. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2025.
Djurić Milovanović Aleksandra, Siniša Zrinščak, Deniz Eke (2025), „Interfaith Dialogue and Narratives on Migration: Comparative Insights from Serbia, Croatia and Austria”. Religious and non-Religious Narratives on Migration. Eds. Regina Polak, Aubyce Tolsun, Ansgar Jodicke. Brill. 31-51.
Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration – Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Brill
Veković, Marko, “Belonging without Attending? National Identity and Contemporary Religious Pattern in Serbia.” In The Many Faces of Christianism: From the Russian World to the Challenge of Illiberalism in Europe, edited by Marietta van der Toll, Zoran Grozdanov, Sophia Johnson and Petr Kratochvil, 2025, 210-229. Leiden: Brill.
https://brill.com/display/title/72381?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOorm6iA6gUsei84KTqjn6_3nKkt0vU2Mc4U_ISJoORtlEzI9rPig
Grozdanov, Zoran, „When a Light Cloak Turns into a Pious Cage: Thinking National Identity with Karl Barth and John Paul II“, in M. van der Toll, P. Kratochvil, S. Johnson, and Zoran Grozdanov (eds.), The Many Faces of Christianism: The ‘Russian World’ in Europe, Brill, Leiden, 2025.
https://brill.com/display/title/72381?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopSUtcreGqBCPg2T-g01gZbG6LIHGJyyLMMYvJzwA4KF3lC8h-S
Jakelić, Slavica, “Linking Identity and Solidarity: A Reflection from the Periphery,” Religion, Modernity, and Colonialism, eds. Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024.
https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268208486/religion-modernity-and-the-global-afterlives-of-colonialism/
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, The Balkans labyrinth: culture, gender and leadership, Scholars Press, 2024.
https://www.amazon.com/Balkans-Labyrinth-Culture-gender-leadership/dp/6138948165
Zrinščak, S., Staničić, F. (2024) Catholic Church in Croatia. Legal Framework and Social Frictions. In: F. Cibulka, Z. T. Irwin (eds.) Liberals, Conservatives, and Mavericks. On Christian Churches of Eastern Europe since 1980s. A Festschrift for Sabrina P. Ramet. Budapest: Central University Press, pp. 267-285.
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789633864586/liberals-conservatives-and-mavericks#toc
Hazdovac Bajić, N., Zrinščak, S., „Religion and COVID-19 in Croatia. Preference for Religion and Varieties of (Non)compliance“. In: B. Conway, L. Kühle, F. Alicino, G. Bîrsan (eds.) Religion, Law, and COVID-19 in Europe: A Comparative Analysis. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press,2024., pp. 73-93.
https://hup.fi/assets/hypothesis/web/viewer.html?file=/chapters/43/files/0ee5c994-afaf-43f1-9b58-6d0a19c97025.pdf
Djurić Milovanović Aleksandra, Marko Galić, „European Missionaries and Religious Cultural Transfer in Interwar Yugoslavia: the Case of the Adventist Church“. In: Echoes of Europe: Cultural Transfer in interwar Yugoslavia, eds. Aleksandra Djurić Milovanović, Ivana Pantelić. Belgrade: Zepter Book World, Institute for European Studies, 2024, 303-325.
ies_ctes_echoes-2025-ch15.pdf
Odak, Stipe, “Construction of victimhood and its fragmentation within national frameworks”. In A. Bazin, E. Hébert, V.-B. Rosoux, & E. Sangar (Eds.), Memory fragmentation from below and beyond the state: Uses of the past in conflict and post-conflict settings, Routledge, 2023, 19-34.
Grozdanov, Zoran and Odak, Stipe, “Balkan the Unifier and Balkan the Divider”, Stipe Odak and Zoran Grozdanov (eds.), Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction, Routledge, London-New York, 2023. 1-14. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003157915-1/introduction-stipe-odak-zoran-grozdanov?context=ubx&refId=49c45a00-1c2d-4fbb-b791-fbc185cef03b
Breskaya, O., Zrinščak, S., „Religion, Moral Issues and Politics: Exploring Profile sin CEE“. In: O. Breskaya, S. Zrinščak, S. (eds.) Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Change and Its Discontents: Religious Organizations and Religious Life in Central and Eastern Europe. Volume 15. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024, pp. 42-75.
https://brill.com/display/title/60277
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, Peace Pedagogies in Intercultural and Interreligious Learning: Insights from the ETOS Initiative and SAPERE BiH (2014-2020), in Kasumagić L. and Clarke-Habibi S. (eds.) Peace Pedagogies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Springer, 2023.
Odak, S. „Komšiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology“, in Odak, S. and Grozdanov, Z. (eds.), Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction, New York and London, Routledge, 2023.
https://www.routledge.com/Balkan-Contextual-Theology-An-Introduction/Odak-Grozdanov/p/book/9780367744489?srsltid=AfmBOore–PDGLbeUqLuVrFQI3CN94xyIDZTti8-zi-4jdARvMfMauLg
Sekulić, Branko. “Kristovo etnonacionalističko raspeće: Sakralizacija etnonacionalističkih agendi unutar hrvatskog katoličanstva i srpskog pravoslavlja – posljedice i uzroci.”, in: Zoran Grozdanov, Domovina slikana tamjanom: teologija nacionalnog identiteta, with Zoran Grozdanov, 91-122. Rijeka: Ex libris, 2023.
https://www.hocuknjigu.hr/proizvodi/knjige/publicistika/politika/domovina-slikana-tamjanom
Grozdanov, Zoran, „IncarNation: On the Possibilities of Balkan Contextual Theology“, u: Stipe Odak i Zoran Grozdanov (ur.), Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction, London-New York: Routledge, 2023., str. 79-91.
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003157915-6/incarnation-zoran-grozdanov?context=ubx&refId=03c3c2ef-9076-44d4-ac4e-f85648125470
Sekulić, Branko. “Theology in The Spirit of Palanka: Catechism of Croatian Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Ethnonationalist Imagineries.” In Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction, edited by S. Odak and Z. Grozdanov, 241-255. London: Routledge, 2023.
https://www.routledge.com/Balkan-Contextual-Theology-An-Introduction/Odak-Grozdanov/p/book/9780367744489?srsltid=AfmBOopGB8qnLMFRfGH0xkwkUmxCZBFRI8wJHIIzCeldqE4YX_Ga-nqc
Grozdanov, Zoran and Zelič Nebojša, „From Catholic Church to Religious–Political Movements: Religious Populism’s Coming of Age in Croatia“, u: lo Mascolo, Gionathan (ed.), The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks and Denominations, Transcript Verlag, Berlin, 2023.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6038-8/the-christian-right-in-europe/
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, “Rodni stereotipi: Znanstveno i religijski opravdane razlike kao izlika za diskriminaciju“, in: Vasiljević, Snježana (ed.), Rodna ravnopravnost. pravo i politike. Zagreb: Pravni fakultet Sveučlišta u Zagrebu, 2023.
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, “Gender and religion in the Balkans“, in Odak S. and Grozdanov Z. (eds.), Balkan Contextual Theology, Routledge, 2023.
Sekulić, Branko. “Trobojnica nad raspelom.” Afterword in Zoran Grozdanov, Domovina slikana tamjanom: teologija nacionalnog identiteta, 159-168. Rijeka: Ex libris, 2023.
https://www.hocuknjigu.hr/proizvodi/knjige/publicistika/politika/domovina-slikana-tamjanom
Slavica Jakelić, “’Religiosity’ and ‘Modernity’ in Context: A Short Take on Theory and Interpretation,” Liber Amicorum in Honor of Duško Sekulić (in Croatian), in Kako istraživati hrvatsko društvo? – Liber Amicorum Duško Sekulić, eds. Siniša Zrinščak, Jasminka Lažnjak, Aleksandar Štulhofer, Zagreb: Pravni fakultet Sveucilista u Zagrebu, 2023
https://webshop.pravo.hr/proizvod/kako-istrazivati-hrvatsko-drustvo/
Jakelić, Slavica, “Neither Exclusionary Religious Nationalisms, Nor Abstract Religious Humanisms: Belonging and Border-Living in the Balkans,” in Balkan Contextual Theology, eds. Stipe Odak and Zoran Grozdanov, Routledge, 2023
https://www.routledge.com/Balkan-Contextual-Theology-An-Introduction/Odak-Grozdanov/p/book/9780367744489?srsltid=AfmBOop67cjAoqiQWQkqqf0KXCDn-ISK_JRq5kebt5n5HhtKeCGqPolT
Grozdanov, Zoran and Zelič Nebojša, „Religija kao polarizator?“, in: Enes Kulenović (ur.), Politike polarizacije i kulturni rat u Hrvatskoj, Fakultet političkih znanosti, Zagreb, 2023.
https://www.croris.hr/crosbi/publikacija/knjiga/804632
Đurić Milovanović, Aleksandra, Amjad М. Saleem, “The Role of IRD and outreach in building trust and strengthening social inclusion in Europe: the case of Network for Dialogue“, In: Religion, Religious Groups and Migration, Deniz Cosan Eke and Eric Trinka (eds.). London: Transnational Press, 2023, 127–142.
Religion, Religious Groups and Migration – Transnational Press London
Nikodem, K., Zrinščak, S., „Sekularizacija, individualizacija ili polarizacija? Religijske promjene u europskim katoličkim zemljama“, in: J. Baloban, S. Migles, K. Nikodem, S. Zrinščak (eds.) Promjene vrijednosnog sustava u demokratskoj Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: KBF Sveučilišta u Zagrebu / Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2023, 37-75.
https://www.ks.hr/naslovnica/9104450-promjene-vrijednosnog-sustava-u-demokratskoj-hrvatskoj.html
Čehulić. M, Zrinščak, S., „Imigranti kao prijetnja. Socijalna distanca i percepcija prijetnje u starim i novim demokracijama Europske unije“, in: J. Baloban, S. Migles, K. Nikodem, S. Zrinščak (eds.) Promjene vrijednosnog sustava u demokratskoj Hrvatskoj. Zagreb: KBF Sveučilišta u Zagrebu / Kršćanska sadašnjost, 2023, 315-349.
https://www.ks.hr/naslovnica/9104450-promjene-vrijednosnog-sustava-u-demokratskoj-hrvatskoj.html
Sekulić, Branko. “Balkan Theological Gordian Knot: Post-Yugoslav Territory in the Rough Embrace of Ethnonationalism and Religion.” Political Theology, June 2025, 1–18.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2025.2514921
Veković, Marko, “Covenantal Pluralism in Eastern Europe? A Bleak Outlook from Serbia”, The Review of Faith & International Affairs: 23(1) 2025, 88-101.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2025.2454816
Kurić, Đermana and Petrović, Vanja, “The Muslim Woman and Contemporary Feminist Meaning-Making in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Can AFŽ’s “Veil Lifting” Campaign be Understood as Wholly Emancipatory?”, Femina Politica, 2025, 78-90, Berlin, https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/103911#
Odak, Stipe, Exploring Complexities of Forgiveness in Religious Traditions in a Post-Conflict Setting: Interviews with Muslim and Christian Leaders in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Religions, 16(5) 2025, 537.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050537
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/5/537
Baccarini, Elvio, „Democracy, Ageing, Disability“ (with Aleksandar Šušnjar), Phenomenology and Mind 28 (2025) 11: 150-169.
https://www.rosenbergesellier.it/ita/titolo?ref=1749
Ališauskienė, M.; Grzymala-Mosczynska, H.; Prusak, J.; Zrinščak, S., „Queer Migration in Catholic Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: An Unexplored Topic“. Religions, 16, 2025, 881. https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16/7/881
Khandoker, Nasrin; Kurić, Đermana and Carr, James, “Rethinking Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism in a Relational Matrix of Race and Gender”, Women’s Studies International Forum, 2024.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539524001213
Miloš, Ana Gavran and Zelič, Nebojša, „Civic Friendship, Capabilities and Affiliation“, Theoria-A Swedish Journal of Philosophy, 71 (2024), 179; 53-76. doi: 10.3167/th.2024.7117903
Spahić Šiljak, Zilka, “Knowledge production in the Balkans. Feminism and Religion School“, The Ecumenical Review (World Council of Chruches: Willey, 2024). DOI:
10.1111/erev.12826
Sekulić, Branko. “The Theology of The Ethnocultural Empathic Turn: Towards the Balkan Theology of Political Liberation.” Religions 15, no. 2 (2024).
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15020191
Veković, Marko, “(Un)Expected Sacred Canopy? Religion, State and Society in the Post-Conflict Kosovo”, Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, 15/2024, 148-164.
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004713802_008
Odak, Stipe, “Why Do They Not Do More? Analyzing Peacebuilding Actions of Religious Leaders during and after Violent Conflicts”, Religions, 15(1) 2024, 116.
https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15010116
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/116
Grozdanov, Zoran and Zelič, Nebojša, „Religious nationalism and religious governance: Overlaps and divergences. The case of Croatia”, Ethnicities 24(2)2024: 255-269.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14687968231208267
Kurić, Đermana, “Blaming Muslim Women: Intersectionality and the Headscarf in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Context Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2023, 25-51.
https://context.cns.ba/index.php/context/article/view/223
Kurić, Đermana, “Feminizam i religija u 21. stoljeću – Tehnologija, dijalog i širenje granica / Feminism and Religion in the 21st Century – Technology, Dialogue, and Expanding Borders”, PREGLED: časopis za društvena pitanja/ PREGLED: Periodical for Social Issues, 2023, 153–156.
https://www.pregled.unsa.ba/index.php/pregled/article/view/1173
Petek, Ana; Gavran Miloš, Ana; Zelič, Nebojša, „Affiliation as Solidarity: Perspective of Vulnerable Groups“, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, XXV (2023), 1; 1, 26. doi: 10.1080/19452829.2023.2283224
Baccarini, Elvio, Public Justification, Evaluative Standards, and Different Perspectives in the Attribution of Disability, Philosophies (Basel), 8 (2023), 5; 1-18. (with Kristina Lekić Barunčić).
https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/8/5/87
Zelič, Nebojša, „ O javnom umu i načelu razlike: opravdanje demokracije vlasničkog tipa“//Filozofska istraživanja, 43 (3), 2023, 469 – 480. doi.org/10.21464/fi43302.
Baccarini, Elvio, Public Reason and Biotechnological Moral Enhancement of Criminal Offenders, Philosophical inquiries, XI (2023), 2; 91-114.
https://www.philinq.it/index.php/philinq/article/view/494
Baccarini, Elvio, The role of experts in public deliberations. A Rawlsian Epistemically Responsible Democracy, Revue internationale de philosophie, 77 (2023), 2; 37-58.
https://shs.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2023-2-page-37?lang
Baccarini, Elvio, „Sposobnosti i pravednost za ljude koji nemaju sposobnosti razložnosti i racionalnosti“, Filozoska istraživanja, 43 (2023), 3; 495-507. With Iva Martinić.
https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/455892