Naslov
Two Nations, Two Religions, One City: Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats Pilgrimage and Heritage in the Context of Medieval Royal City of Bobovac

Autori
Katić, Mario

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Central Europe and Balkan Muslims: Relations and Representations

Mjesto i datum
Prag, Češka Republika, 02.10.2017. - 03.10.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats, Bobovac, Pilgrimage, Heritage

Sažetak
The aim of this paper is to problematize the identiterian processes of Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina, and/because of, their relationship with Bosnian Croats (Catholics). I will contextualize these processes using a case study of pilgrimage/commemoration performed on ruins of Medieval Bosnian royal city of Bobovac. Bobovac started to become an issue in 2002 when Bosnian cardinal Vinko Puljić established a military pilgrimage of Bosnian Croat members of the post-2005 Bosnian army to, as he calls it, the ‘altar of the fatherland’ (oltar domovine) - the royal city of Bobovac - honouring the death of the Bosnian queen Katarina Kotromanić Kosača. In 2015 the Bosniaks have started to organise their own performance, presenting their own narrative and version of the past of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a claim on the present. The Bosniak narrative denies the Croatian character of both the queen and the site, claiming instead that they were Bosnian, and the Bosniaks demand that the lily flag, generally regarded as having been that of the medieval Bosnian kingdom but since 1990 used exclusively by Muslims as a symbol of Bosnia, be flown instead of the checkerboard design used by both the Republic of Croatia and by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With these demands, the Bosniaks, though defined by their Muslim heritage, explicitly claim as their own the pre-Ottoman heritage of Bosnia and use that claim to delegitimize the Croat position, while Croats reference their identity to Medieval Bosnian kingdom as Christian, European and in close connection to Central European Catholic heritage. These pilgrimage/commemoration performances present the processes of national-religious groups grounding their present identities in claims about historical contexts and heritage, as a means of arguing for their rights to claim sovereignty over contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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