Naslov
The Process o Reconciliation and Memory Healing after Vukovar Tragedy: The Contribution of Catholic Church in Croatia

Autori
Ćurković Nimac, Jasna ; Valković, Jerko

Izvornik
Religioni e Societa (0394-9397) XXXIII (2018), 92; 52-61

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Vukovar tragedy, reconciliation, memory healing, Catholic Church in Croatia

Sažetak
In this paper the authors describe the atmosphere in Croatia after the Homeland War and the role that Vukovar, as a place of tremendous suffering, has in the Croatian collective consciousness and memory. In the first part, they present the theoretical framework of the reconciliation process, and thematise a phenomenon such as memory and forgiveness as the most important notions in this process. In the second part, they examine the role that Catholic Church in Croatia had in the reconciliation. As they argue, this role was mainly positive: Church in Croatia always encouraged forgiveness and reconciliation but also tried to insert it in the real context of ordinary life. Today however the theme on reconciliation in Croatia it seems that it is not in focus any more (there is a lack of more updated research on the topic) which is both promising and preoccupying: promising because it gives hope that citizens are no more clinging to the past and preoccupying because the experience taught us that past, if not purified, always returns back even in a harsher way.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Teologija

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