Table of contents

1. Introduction. The concurrent but not instrumental role of the confessional factor in the Bosnian affair - 2. The legacy of Dayton, between macroscopic limits and lost opportunities: the confessional factor isolated from the "stone guest" of weak reformism - 3. The signs of other-directed democratic structure in the Dayton Constitution (1995) and the role of the religious factor in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina - 4. The perennial confrontation between nationalisms and the status of minorities and its re-emergence in the question of the "right of return" - 5. Primary legislation on religious freedom. a) The law on religious freedom, n.5, of 28 January 2004; b) The law against discrimination (n.405, of 23 July 2009); c) The law on human rights and the Ombudsman in Bosnia and Herzegovina (l. in the text amended on January 22, 2004) - 6. Legislation instrumental to confessional freedom in Bosnia-Herzegovina. a) School legislation and the specter of ethnic segregation; b) Association and service legislation: the Law on volunteering (2008), the Law on associations and foundations (2010) and the Law on civil status registers (2012); c) The legislation on administrative procedure (2004) at central and regional level. hints. The law on young people (2010); d) The ideological aftermath of the agrarian reform (1946) in the property legislation; e) The legislation on matrimonial and family law; f) The protection of religious freedom in "separate" organizational structures and in employment - 7. The framework of internal and external relations between the Churches and confessional communities. a) The Catholic Church and the renewed age of concordats; b) The Islamic community. The new secular and politically moderate course; c) The Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The new fronts of the "custody" of Balkan nationalism - 8. The common inter-religious declarations of intent in the post-Dayton period for the re-establishment of institutions and inter-religious dialogue - 9. Bosnia-Herzegovina in the perspective of European integration