Lecturas y usos de las viñetas sobre el Islam

El caso de las viñetas que sobre Mahoma y el Islam publicó el periódico danés Jyllands-Posten el 30 de septiembre de 2005, y airearon los islamistas de Dinamarca y otros países, provocando comportamientos violentos, y los debates que todo ello fue suscitando, es ilustrativo, no sólo de diferencias a la hora de valorar la libertad de expresión o lo que es blasfemia y denigración de otros, sino también el desconcierto de la población europea y sus líderes políticos ante los problemas derivados de una muy deficiente integración cultural de grandes bolsas de población.

La santidad compartida: la encrucijada del Islam y la ortodoxia cristiana en los Balcanes, reflejos en Bulgaria

In this doctoral thesis with the title: “The Shared Holiness: The crossroad of Islam and the Christian Orthodoxy in the Balkans, reflections in Bulgaria”, presented by VLADISLAVA SPASOVA ILIEVA, under the direction of Dr. MONTSERRAT ABUMALHAM MAS, and Dr. PEDRO BÁDENAS DE LA PEÑA, we reflect upon the crossroads between the populations in the Balkans, whose conversion into States was significantly influenced by their belonging to the Byzantine and the Ottoman Empires. Known as the crossroads of several cultures, the area was the destination of a massive influx of pagan Slaves, as well as the meeting point of Islam and Christianity. Considering the bidirectionality of the processes, we shall focus on the mutual enrichment brought about in the encounter between the religiosities of the Balkans, and we will discuss these points from different perspectives. In the common Balkan-Anatolian space, we turn our attention to the ancient hermits, with the aim of showing the complicity in the relations of coexistence, whether Islamic-Christian, Turkish-Byzantine, Turkish-Bulgarian, or Ottoman-Balkan, and a possible scheme, that could be valid for both social and spiritual growth of the person, as well as for the development of an ethnic or religious community, when sharing the same space with other populations, communities or ethnicities...