Anthropology

The paper describes and analyzes the main topics, concepts and stages in the 40 years life of the International seminar "Future of Religion" held within the Academic Program of the Inter-University Center Dubrovnik. Three stages of the course development are emphasized: 1977 - 1991, 1991 - 1999, 2000 - 2016. The topics and the discussions at the seminar sessions are analyzed as theological, philosophical, sociological reflection on religion, and as ethical attitude toward intellectual and cultural developments and processes during the social changes, the war in ex-Yugoslavia and the post-communist transformations in the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. The mutual collaboration and understanding among participants coming from  variety of nations, sciences, religions is emphasized as a special intellectual ethos of the "Future of Religion" course. The course relevant publications - individual and collective -  are outlined. The problem of the Humaniti...

The paper analyses the philosophical aspects of the 'religion - national mythology' synthesis. The main directions of the study are as follows: 1. Both on the individual and social plan, the orientation of the transcending universalizing power of religion could vary depending on the macro-social movements a community /or an individual/ is involved in. For the individual as for the community, religion could be a cultural position transcending ego and ethno-centrism, mono-cultural tendencies; in situations of internal differentiation and disintegration of these entities, the universalizing binding role of religion is partialized and determined by various social groups, who are often in opposition to each other due to their economic political, ethnic, psychological features; 2. This process is usually related to the invalidation of universally uniting religious-moral bonds and values and intensification of differences: power, property, doctrinal differences to a shift of the we...

Religion Within the Theoretical Field of Contemporary Balkan Scholars (In the Context of the Collapse of the Former Yugoslavia)This study aims to describe and analyse the main topics and trends in the study of religion in contemporary Balkan countries. It pays special attention to the contemporary sociology of religion in the former Yugoslavian countries: Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Various theoretical approaches are presented that are used in order to understand the dynamic processes that have developed in the contemporary religious situation. The topics and discussions at various seminar sessions, conferences, and workshops are analyzed as theoretical reflection on religion and as an ethical attitude towards intellectual and cultural developments and processes accompanying social change, the war in former Yugoslavia, and the post-communist transformations in the end of 20th and the beginning of 21st century. The relevant publ...

The Book of the Polish Ethnologist and Anthropologist Dr. Magdalena Lyubanska Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Study on Religious (Anti) Syncretism (Lubanska, Magdalena, 2015. Studies on Religious (Anti) Syncretism, eBook by Gruyter Open Ltd, Warsaw / Berlin) peculiarities and trends in the relations between the mixed Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes - through the prism of modern methodologies and concepts in the field of anthropology and ethnology.

In the report is analyzed the idea of the famous German philosopher G.W.F.Hegel (1770 – 1831) concerning the specificities of the abstract thinking, emphasized in his paper “Who thinks abstractly?” Contemporary phenomena are outlined, related to that type of thinking as partial, narrow-mind, undifferentiated, labeling, ignoring of the process and the reasons, etc. The relation of this type of thinking, viewed in a global context, to the ecological crisis, to aggression, stigmatization, to the contemporary conflict fields is analyzed. A special attention is paid to and the relevant problems are discussed regarding the subject of the abstract thinking, the “uneducated” person in a global context, as far as regarding the social and the cultural conditions generating him.