Images of the religious other: Discourse and distance in the Western Balkans

This book contains the fruits of a 2006 joint research project of the Kotor
Network on Religion in Plural Societies. The contributors come
from countries of the former Yugoslavia: Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina
(B&H), and Serbia. They write about “images” of religious others,
that is, about conceptions, perceptions, descriptions, understandings,
attitudes, and depictions. The “others,” for the most part, are
people who belong to a religion other than the dominant religion in
their society, the latter being the religion with which the dominant ethnic
nation more or less strongly identifies. Religion is a significant
marker of the ethnic identities of the Catholic Croats, the Orthodox
Serbs, and the Muslim Bosniaks, who are all South Slavs speaking
roughly the same language.