Images of the Religious Other

I have another new edited volume out, titled Images of the Religious Other: Discourse and Distance in the Western Balkans (Moe 2008). It is a collection of articles from Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, based on a joint project of the Kotor Network, and published by CEIR in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Contributions cover a range of topics including the Ottomans in history textbooks, religious others in public-school Religious Education textbooks, religious others in an Orthodox publication, women in three religious publications, and surveys of religious distance in Croatia and Serbia. I wrote a brief introduction, but the content is all down to the excellent work of some of the people I’ve been privileged to work with in the network for the past four years: Ahmet, Aid, Ankica, Dinka, Milan, Zilka, Zlatiborka, and last – but not least – Zorica, who long waited with the utmost patience and then acted with alacrity to get the book published.

No, I don’t edit a book every month. The New Directions project occupied three of us for four years. This one has been lying around for two years, waiting for me to find some breathing space to cross the t’s and dot the i’s. I finally made it in late December, though I’m afraid the page layout suffered a bit from the rush to get the book finished before the Christmas roast was.

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Changes:

• Link to defunct Kotor Network site removed
• Bibliographic reference added