20.500.12556/DiRROS-25519 Afterlife beliefs and dream encounters with the dead among adherents of alternative spiritualities in Bosnia and Herzegovina Predstave o posmrtnem življenju in stiki z mrtvimi v sanjah med pripadniki alternativnih duhovnosti v Bosni in Hercegovini This article examines the connection between the ideas adherents of alternative spiritualities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have about the afterlife and their understanding of dreams involving the dead. It explores how these ideas and interpretations are connected to the perceived agency of the dead, as experienced by my interlocutors in their dreams. Focusing on ideas about the afterlife within alternative spirituality, the article discusses why these beliefs have regained significance and how they have been reinterpreted in relation to modern/secular and religious explanations. By analysing the beliefs of individuals engaged in alternative spiritualities regarding the afterlife, it explores how these ideas shape their understanding of dreams featuring personally known deceased individuals. As beliefs about the afterlife influence how individuals perceive the state of the dead, it examines how these beliefs enable the dead to have agency upon the interlocutors in their dreams. The findings are based on ethnographic research conducted with spiritual individuals in Sarajevo and Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Članek preučuje povezavo med predstavami o posmrtnem življenju in razumevanjem sanj o bližnjih mrtvih med pripadniki alternativnih duhovnosti v Bosni in Hercegovini. Raziskuje, kako so te predstave in interpretacije povezane z vplivom, ki ga imajo nanje mrtvi. S poudarkom na predstavah o posmrtnem življenju v alternativni duhovnosti članek obravnava, zakaj so ta verovanja znova pridobila na pomenu in kako so bila reinterpretirana v razmerju do modernih/sekularnih ter religioznih razlag. Z analizo predstav o posmrtnem življenju pokaže, kako ta prepričanja oblikujejo njihovo razumevanje sanj, v katerih se pojavljajo mrtvi. Ker prepričanja o posmrtnem življenju vplivajo na to, kako posamezniki dojemajo stanje mrtvih v onstranstvu, članek preučuje, kako ta verovanja omogočajo, da imajo mrtvi v sanjah določen vpliv na sogovornike. Ugotovitve temeljijo na etnografski raziskavi, opravljeni med pripadniki alternativnih duhovnosti v Sarajevu in Banjaluki v Bosni in Hercegovini. alternative spirituality dreams dead afterlife near-death experience Bosnia and Herzegovina agency alternativna duhovnost sanje mrtvi posmrtno življenje izkušnja bližine smrti Bosna in Hercegovina true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji Neznano 2026-01-21 18:23:48 2026-01-21 18:23:48 2026-02-16 07:12:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2025 0 0 str. 119-141 letn. 28 2025 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2025-07-24 133.7:398.3(497.6Sarajevo) 1408-6271 10.3986/SMS20252806 245690883 https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/sms/article/view/14601/12521 1 f3a95303-f6ed-11f0-a15d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=38686 6_Ivnik.pdf 6_Ivnik.pdf 1 AE83D3AF7C1938F64841502F717042C4 7aa7e68329d1f109dc2f18c609948bcd9f55ebbc8b8c68c37da5e80a9f419729 4771cada-f6ee-11f0-a15d-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=38687 Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti Studia mythologica Slavica 0 0 0