ISBN:
9780691139555
,
9781400831357 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
271 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781400831357
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
DDC:
305.69709499
Keywords:
Islam
;
Bulgarien
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...
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,
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