Bosnian identity is civic and multi-religious, not ethnoreligious

Evidence

Bosnians are defined in this book as all residents of the internationally recognized sovereign nation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, regardless of their religious affiliation, who consider themselves Bosnian, that is, who remain loyal to a Bosnian state built on the principles of civic society and religious pluralism. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 739

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sets the book’s working definition of Bosnian identity as civic loyalty and religious pluralism, not confessional belonging.
• XREF: Parallels the civic-vs-ethnonational distinction found in Things Fall Apart and other works on how identity gets weaponized.

Related

• The Bosnian conflict divided people on religious identity despite shared language and Slavic descent (similarity 0.83)
• Bosnian culture is multilayered across multiple religions and ethnicities (similarity 0.83)
• Bosnian ethnic identities formed through shifting, multidirectional conversions (similarity 0.82)
• Denying Bosnia’s culture logically implies America has no culture either (similarity 0.80)
• Bosnian pluralism directly contradicts the crusader worldview nationalists desire (similarity 0.79)
• Pure-identity frameworks cannot grasp cultures defined by intermingling (similarity 0.79)
• Nationalist terminologies impose artificial distinctions on one shared language. (similarity 0.78)
• Herzegovina had a separate medieval identity with distinctive geography and culture (similarity 0.78)
• Bosnian government’s religious diversity was erased by the phrase Muslim-dominated (similarity 0.78)
• The Bosnia genocide was religious in four distinct, compounding senses (similarity 0.78)
• Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims spoke one shared language despite script differences. (similarity 0.78)