Journal Forum Bosnæ

Number 39, 01. february 2007.

UNITY AND PLURALITY IN EUROPE Part Two

UNITY AND PLURALITY IN EUROPE

Part Two

Edited by

Rusmir Mahmutćehajić

CONTENTS

CIVIL SOCIETY

GLOBALIZATION AS THE NEGATION OF THE OTHER

Mile Babić ...(7)

DEMOCRATIC THEORY, NEO-CONSERVATIVE

IDEOLOGY AND THE DEFENSE OF HIERARCHY

Kurt Anders Richardson ...(18)

THE TRANSCENDENCY OF LOVE

IN EMMANUEL LÉVINAS

Ferdinando Luigi Marcolungo ...(32)

RELIGION AND NEOLIBERALISM

Asim Mujkić ...(39)

REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION AND MEDIA

Stuart Schoffman ....(53)

LAND AND LAW

Gianluca Solla ...(67)

THE QUESTION OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Arif Tanović ...(78)

(POST) DAYTON BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA:

21 11 1995 – 21 11 2006 / ELEVEN YEARS

OF A DIVIDED SOCIETY AND AN UNDERDEVELOPED STATE

Nerzuk Ćurak ...(87)

THE MUSLIM QUESTION

THE MUSLIM INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE AND ITS PERCEPTION IN EUROPE

William C Chittick ...(107)

THE MUSLIM QUESTION IN DIFFERENT VIEWS

Paul Ballanfat ...(125)

GROWING UP WITH ISLAM IN SWEDEN: DISCUSSING

ISLAM WITH YOUNG ADULT MUSLIMS

Jonas Otterbeck ...(151)

IS THERE AN IDENTITY OF EUROPEAN MUSLIMS?

Mustafa Cerić ...(166)

FUNDAMENTAL ISLAMOPHOBIA

Ivo Banac ...(172)

THE SOURCES OF ARABIAN FOLK TALES IN THE BELIEFS AND

THE IDENTITIES OF THREE MUSLIM PEOPLES IN EASTERN EUROPE;

THE CIRCASSIANS, THE ALBANIANS (SHQIPTARS)

AND THE BULGARIANS OF VOLGA BULGHAR

PUBLIC LIFE

THE COMMUNITY OF LOSS: TOWARDS A POLITICS

OF PLURALITY AND VULNERABILITY

Olivia Guaraldo ...(197)

SOCIAL ORDER WITHOUT SCAPEGOATING

Keith Doubt ...(207)

FEMININE SPIRITUALITY: THE LOST DIMENSION

IN THE WESTERN PERCEPTION OF ISLAM

Sachiko Murata ...(218)

RELATING TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD THROUGH

RITUAL: ON PUBLICNESS IN JAPANESE FOLK RELIGION

Akira Nishimura ...(232)

INTER-RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND SCIENCE:

A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE

Robert J Schneider

SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND IDENTITY...(247)

Žarko Papić ...(257)

ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION, FRAGMENTATION AND

OPENING UP THE ECONOMY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Fikret Čaušević ...(276)

BOSNIAN SERBS AS CREATORS AND PARTICIPANTS

IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR STATE

Krsto Mijanović ...(298)

MISSCELANEOUS

BOSNIAC EPICS - PROBLEMS OF COLLECTING

AND EDITING THE MAIN COLLECTIONS

Zlatan Čolaković ...(323)

ARTICULATING EVIL / LESSONS FOR BOSNIA

Asim Mujkić ...(362)

ABOUT THE AUTHORS ...(371)

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news

Green Theology and Ecological Stewardship A Conversation with Lejla Demiri, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, and Timothy Winter It is our honour to invite members and friends of International Forum Bosnia and the general public to a Conversation on Green Theology and Ecological Stewardship between Professor Lejla Demiri of Tübingen University (Germany), Professor Rusmir Mahmutćehajić of International Forum Bosnia (Sarajevo), and Professor Timothy Winter (Sheik Abdulhakim) of Cambridge University. The Conversation will take place at the premises of International Forum Bosnia in Sarajevo (Sime Milutinovića 10, Centar), on Monday, September 2, to start at 19:00 hrs.

Towards an Islamic Mariology Interdisciplinary Workshop co-organised by Lejla Demiri (University of Tübingen), Tim Winter (Cambridge Muslim College) and Rusmir Mahmutćehajić (International Forum Bosnia)

Report on the 12th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week International Forum Bosnia held as announced its programme of events to mark the 12th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. The key theme of this year's programme was Global Ethics: Urgent Questions and Challenges.

The 12th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week Global Ethics: Urgent Questions and Challenges. International Forum Bosnia will be holding a programme of events to mark the 12th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week this year in response to the appeal by the UN General Assembly session held on October 20, 2010, to member-states. While International Forum Bosnia will, as usual, be organising and coordinating the activities, a number of other national and international organisations and societies will also be participating and contributing. The key themes of this year''s programme are summed up in the title: Global Ethics: Urgent Questions and Challenges. The programme will take place on Wednesday the 5th of February and Thursday the 12th of February.

Sixth International Colloquium on Bosnian Oral Tradition in World Culture We are pleased to inform members and friends of International Forum Bosnia that the Sixth International Colloquium on Bosnian Oral Tradition in World Culture will be held on December 9 (Saturday), to start at 11 a.m. The colloquium will be held in the meeting room of International Forum Bosnia (Sime Milutinovića 10/III).