Naslov
Religiously Nationalizing the Landscape in Bosnia-Herezegovina

Autori
Hayden, Robert ; Katić, Mario

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

Skup
Movements, Narratives and Landscapes

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.06.2015. - 07.06.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
War of Architecture; Nationalizing the Landscape; Competing Religioscapes

Sažetak
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina is sometimes labelled as a war for memories. Different national-religious groups were competing to destroy religious buildings, since such structures both represent the national presence of the Others and act as places of memory. Many churches and mosques were completely destroyed and sometimes even replaced by parking lots (i.e. the ferhadija mosque in Banja Luka, the church in Odžak, the church in Teslić, etc). Today, however, we are witnessing the “war of architecture, ” in which the different religious communities compete to build more religious buildings and more monumental ones, and other markers of space and place as theirs (e.g., building of monumental pilgrimage sites such as Kondžilo, St. John from Podmilačje, and Bobovac ; erecting large crosses on prominent places above cities such as Mostar and Sarajevo, massive (re)construction of mosque buildings and construction of new mosques in parts of Bosnia, etc.). The nationalizing of the landscape is happening through secular architecture also, which has a symbolic meaning to the several communities and some of which are becoming places of secular pilgrimage (such as Andrićgrad [Andrić city] in Višegrad, erecting a statue of Stefan Nemanja in the centre of Banja Luka, the Srebrenica memorial, etc.). These processes are not new phenomena in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Competing religioscapes (Hayden) can be observed and followed for centuries (conversion of churches into mosques after the Ottoman conquest, building of the Orthodox and Catholic cathedrals in Sarajevo in the late 19th Century etc). In this paper we want to give an historical overview of these religioscapes and problematise the contemporary processes that are being used to religiously nationalize the landscape.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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