RELIGION FINALLY GAINED ITS FREEDOM BUT HAS NOT YET REACHED ITS INTERPRETATIVE RENAISSANCE

Abstract

With professor Dr. Rešid Hafizović we talked about various challenges of contemporary age: inter-personal relations that are
developed but also endangered by the modern forms of communication, inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogues in Bosnia and
Herzegovina, the Islamic tradition of Bosniaks, religious norms and the promotion of religious values and their potential trivialisation within the social framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina, eurocentrism and the influence of politics on the religious teachings and the system of values within the religious institutions. This is the first interview with Professor Dr Rešid Hafizović as professor emeritus. He was elected as a member of Akademija nauka i umjetnosti BiH (Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and
Herzegovina) in 2023. For many years, he has been engaged as a professor at the Faculty of Islamic Studies in Sarajevo and since
2006, he is also a member of the Iranian Academy of Sciences. Professor Dr Hafizović is presently engaged in new projects. At the
end of our interview, he briefly presented his work Leksikon teoloških, filozofskih i sufijskih pojmova (Lexicon of theological, philosophical and Sufi terminology), a voluminous text exceeding 1200 pages.