Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina is mixed Muslim as a country. The dominant religious context is: Religiously plural and politically loaded — Sunni Muslim (Bosniak, ~51%), Serbian Orthodox (~31%), Roman Catholic (Croat, ~15%); religion entwined with ethnicity.

Bosnia and Herzegovina has both Sunni and Shia communities, and exits from each look slightly different inside the family even when the wider patterns are similar. The pillar page on Islam will be the closest fit.

Leaving in Bosnia and Herzegovina carries real community cost in a way that the broader Western experience often does not capture. Family rupture is common. Local religious communities are often dense, and stepping out of one is closer to immigrating than to changing a hobby.