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Muslim lives in Eastern Europe : gender, ethnicity, and the transformation of Islam in postsocialist Bulgaria / Kristen Ghodsee

Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970-

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010

Online Ressource (xvi, 252 pages) : illustrations.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record

Erscheint auch als: Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- : Muslim lives in Eastern Europe. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4008-3135-7 (electronic book); 1-4008-3135-0 (electronic book)

978-0-691-13954-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-691-13954-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-691-13955-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-691-13955-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-691-13955-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 677987523 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

DR64.2.M8

305.69709499 ; 305.6/9709499     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC031000 ; bisacsh: SOC002010 ; bisacsh: SOC048000 ; bisacsh: SOC032000 ; bisacsh: SOC 031000 ; NAL: DR64.2.M8

LOC-SH: Muslims -- Case studies -- Social conditions -- Bulgaria ; Muslims -- Social conditions -- Bulgaria -- Madan (Smoli︠a︡nski okrŭg) ; Islam -- Case studies -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria ; Islam and politics -- Case studies -- Bulgaria ; Sex role -- Case studies -- Bulgaria ; Ethnicity -- Case studies -- Political aspects -- Bulgaria ; Social change -- Case studies -- Bulgaria ; Communism -- Case studies -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria ; Bulgaria -- History -- 1990- ; Bulgaria -- Case studies -- Religious life and customs ; Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Madan (Smoli︠a︡n) -- Social conditions ; Islam -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Islam and politics -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Sex role -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Social change -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Communism -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies ; Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Social conditions -- Case studies ; Bulgaria -- History -- 1990- ; Bulgaria -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies

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"Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe" examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, Slavic Muslims living in the remote mountains of southern Bulgaria. After Communism fell in 1989, Muslim minorities in Bulgaria sought to rediscover their faith after decades of state-imposed atheism. But instead of returning to their traditionally heterodox roots, isolated groups of Pomaks embraced a distinctly foreign type of Islam, which swept into their communities on the back of Saudi-financed international aid to Balkan Muslims, and which these Pomaks believe to be a more correct interpretation of their religion. Ghodsee explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines. She shows how mosques have replaced the mines as the primary site for jobless and underemployed men to express their masculinity, and how Muslim women have encouraged this as a way to combat alcoholism and domestic violence. Ghodsee demonstrates how women's embrace of this new form of Islam has led them to adopt more conservative family roles, and how the Pomaks' new religion remains deeply influenced by Bulgaria's Marxist-Leninist legacy, with its calls for morality, social justice, and human solidarity"--Provided by publisher