Balkan Contextual Theology: An Introduction

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Introduction: Balkan the Unifier and Balkan the Divider
PART I: Religion, Politics, Identity
	1. Religion and National/Ethnic Identity in the Balkans: Theological and Contextual Positions in Islam
	2. Religion and National/Ethnic Identity in the Western Balkans: Serbian Orthodox Context
	3. Ecumenism Divided: Christian Churches at the Fault Lines
	4. IncarNation: On the Possibility of Balkan Contextual Theology
	5. Gender and Religion in the Balkans: The Example of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
	6. “Democratic Jet Lag” and EUgoslav YUtopias
PART II: Violence, God, Memory
	7. Prayer as the Curse: Religious Tabooisation of God
	8. The Balkan Love Triangle: God, Love, and Violence
	9. Theology in the Spirit of Palanka: Catechism of Croatian Catholic and Serbian Orthodox Ethnonationalist Imaginaries
	10. Lost Bodies, Missing Persons, and Extended Mourning
	11. Identities Built on the Memory of Wrongdoing and Ecumenism of Compassion
	12. The Grace of Not Remembering: Painful Memories and Their Theological Implications
PART III: Life, Culture, Longing
	13. Inat, the Explosive Instinct of Freedom: Towards the Theology of Spite
	14. Other God or God of the Other: Sevdah, Queer Laments, and the Balkan Religious Imaginary
	15. Neither Exclusionary Religious Nationalisms, Nor Abstract Religious Humanisms: Belonging and Border-Living in the Balkans
	16. Komšiluk: The Starting Point of the Balkan Contextual Theology
	17. The Rootless God: Theology of Emigrations
	18. Paradise Lost: Theology of Nostalgia and Hope
Index