ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes a contextual reading of the Balkan concept of “komšiluk.” The term denotes an intimate form of neighbourhood, whose participants are not solely tied together by geographical proximity but also by moral obligations. Seen, additionally, as an irreducible place-in-between that belongs to all, but is not owned by anyone, komšiluk is a novel way to understand dialogue and coexistence in difference. Komšiluk is, therefore, a form of a community but also a meeting point where participants discover their own specificities without fears of elimination or reductionism. In the theological context, komšiluk serves as a proper metaphor for interreligious dialogue as well as conceptions of eschatological life.
