ISBN:
9781400831357
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1400831350
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xvi, 252 pages)
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illustrations.
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in Muslim politics
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- Muslim lives in Eastern Europe
DDC:
305.69709499
Keywords:
Muslims Case studies
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Social conditions
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Bulgaria
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Muslims Social conditions
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Bulgaria
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Madan (Smoli︠a︡nski okrŭg)
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Islam Case studies
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Social aspects
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Bulgaria
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Islam and politics Case studies
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Bulgaria
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Sex role Case studies
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Bulgaria
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Ethnicity Case studies
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Political aspects
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Bulgaria
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Social change Case studies
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Bulgaria
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Communism Case studies
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Social aspects
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Bulgaria
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Muslims Social conditions
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Islam Case studies Social aspects
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Islam and politics Case studies
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Sex role Case studies
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Ethnicity Case studies Political aspects
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Social change Case studies
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Communism Case studies Social aspects
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Muslims Case studies Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Communism ; Social aspects
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Ethnicity ; Political aspects
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Islam and politics
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Islam ; Social aspects
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Muslims ; Social conditions
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Sex role
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Social change
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Case studies
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History
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Bulgaria History
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1990-
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Bulgaria Case studies
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Religious life and customs
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Bulgaria History 1990-
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Bulgaria Case studies Religious life and customs
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Bulgaria
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Bulgaria ; Madan (Smoli︠a︡n)
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
"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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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