A CATHOLIC VIEW OF INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE IN THE TIME OF POPE FRANCIS
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) drew the attention of Catholics to human dignity of non-Christian believers who have right to their religious identity. After the Council Popes Paul VI, John Paul II and Benedict XVI established and supported the Pontifical Council for Interreligious dialogue with the task to study other religions as they perc...
By Mato Zovkić
NEOLOGISMS IN CHILDREN’S SPEECH
Abstract The paper presents a case study – speech "errors", neologisms were recorded during the longitudinal monitoring of a child's speech, i.e. regular speech and language development from the third to the sixth year of life. The previously published work using the material collected during the same longitudinal monitoring analyzed "errors" in th...
By Amina Pehlić
SONGS ABOUT A DISGUISED GIRL IN BOSNIAK ORAL TRADITION
We encounter songs about a disguised girl in our oral tradition throughout the history of its recording – from Erlangen Manuscript, over Vuk Stefanovic Karadzic's collection, to the collections made in the second half of the twentieth century. In those songs a girl disguises as a man in most cases to replace her aged father in a battle. She fights ...
By Ibnel Ramić
THE CONTRIBUTION OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TO THE PROMOTION OF (INTERRELIGIOUS) DIALOGUE
In the introduction the author of the article (lecture) revives the issue of the importance of dialogue and points to the growing complexity of challenges facing dialogue, and in particular interreligious dialogue, in the contemporary society. The article focuses on several important issues underlying interreligious dialogue. Thus, in the introduct...
By Valentina Mandarić
ISLAM AND MUSLIM-CHRISTIAN RELATIONS IN NORWAY
In this paper the author describes and analyzes central features of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations in Norway. By close observation of the tension between interreligious solidarity and aggressive identity politics, the author highlights some central features of the trust-building Christian-Muslim dialogue in Norway. He also notes how anti-Isla...
By Leirvik Oddbjørn
RELIGION IN DEBATES ABOUT THE EUROPEAN IDENTITY
A short reflection on the books and publications in which I have already written about religious identities in Europe is presented in the introduction. A situation with religious identities varies from one society to another, from one continent to the other. There are three types of religious identity that dominate in Europe (church, churchless and...
By Ivan Cvitković
A REVIEW OF THE BOOK “THE METHODOLOGY OF INTERPRETING THE QUR’AN IN HANAFI MEZHEB” BY DR. SAFVET HALILOVIĆ
Book review...
By Adil Makić
AN EVALUATION OF FIVE KEY ASPECTS OF THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (LA) – A CRITICAL REVIEW OF KRASHEN`S THEORY
The development of Krashen`s theory of second language acquisition has been disadvantaged due to the dispute over its untestable hypotheses. In his Monitor Model Krashen (1981; 1982; 1985) claims that linguistic competence can only be acquired subconsciously, while conscious learning mainly depends on learners’ mood and emotions at the time of lear...
By Mersad Dervić, Nizama Spahić
A DESCRIPTION OF MOTIVATION FACTORS IN MAKTAB TEACHING
The objective of this study was to make a scientific description of motivation factors in maktab teaching by analyzing the attitudes of students, mualims and parents. We supposed that mualims use various strategies and actions to motivate their students. A method of theoretical analysis and a descriptive-analytical method were employed, while the f...
By Safet Beganović, Derviš Varešlija
GOOD WATER PILGRIMAGE NEAR FOČA
Good Water near Foča is the first pilgrimage in the Calendar of Marking Special Dates and Events by the Takvim of the Rijaset of the Islamic Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The author of the current paper aims to explain all aspects of the Good Water Pilgrimage, from introducing constituent elements of the Pilgrimage and analyzing folk tales a...
By Elvir Duranović