Dino Abazovic

Full Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sociologist, Full Professor at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has also worked as the Director of the Human Rights Center of the University of Sarajevo and as the Academic Coordinator of the Religious Studies Program of the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at University of Sarajevo. His research is focused on the role of organized religion in conflict and post-conflict societies, the political role of religion in post-socialist transition and religious revivalism, as well as a nexus between religious claims, transitional justice and human rights in emerging democracies.

Activities

Projects / Working Groups

"Analysis and Remodeling of the Relations between Religion and Society" International Study Group

Achievements

Single

Abazović, Dino (2015): „Religious and Ethnic Identities in B-H“ in Ammicht-Quinn R – Babić, M – Grozdanov Z – Ross S – Wacker M (eds.) „Religion and Identity in Post-Conflict Societies“, Concilium, International Journal of Theology, 1/2015.

Abazović, Dino (2015): “Religious Claims during the War and Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina”, Borderlands e-Journal, Special Issue Vol 14. No1., 2015

Abazović, Dino (revised): "Bosnia and Herzegovina" in WORLDMARK ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS PRACTICES, VOLUME 2: COUNTRY ENTRIES, Thomas Riggs & Company and Gale Publishing, USA (2013)

Abazović, Dino (2006): FOR NATION AND GOD: Sociological Inquiries in Religious Nationalism), Magistrat/Sarajevo University Press, Sarajevo (in Bosnian)

Abazović, Dino (2010): RELIGION IN TRANSITION: Essays on Religious and Political), Rabic, Sarajevo (in Bosnian)

Abazović, Dino (2012): BOSNIAN MUSLIMS BETWEEN SECULARIZATION AND DESECULARIZATION), SYNOPSIS, Sarajevo – Zagreb (in Bosnian)

Co-author

Abazović, Dino – Cvitković, Ivan: „Religion and Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Illustrations from the Postwar and Post-Socialist Transtion“ in Radeljić, B. – Topić, M (eds.): RELIGION IN THE POST-YUGOSLAV CONTEXT, Lexington Books, USA (2015)

Abazović, Dino – Velikonja, Mitja (eds.) (2014): POST-YUGOSLAVIA: New Cultural and Political Perspectives, Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK.

Awards

Award

2012 Research fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS)

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