| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 252 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Princeton studies in Muslim politics
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Princeton studies in Muslim politics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the changing face of Islam in Bulgaria -- Names to be buried with -- Men and mines -- The have-nots and the have-nots -- Divide and be conquered -- Islamic aid -- The miniskirt and the veil -- Conclusion : minarets after Marx. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Muslims. |
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Bulgaria. |
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Muslims -- Bulgaria -- Madan (Smoli͡anski okrŭg) -- Social conditions.
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Bulgaria -- Madan (Smoli͡an) |
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Islam -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Islam -- Social aspects. |
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Islam and politics -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Islam and politics. |
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Sex role -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Sex role. |
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Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Ethnicity -- Political aspects. |
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Social change -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Social change. |
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Communism -- Social aspects -- Bulgaria -- Case studies.
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Communism -- Social aspects. |
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Communism. |
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Bulgaria -- History -- 1990-
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1990- |
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Bulgaria -- Religious life and customs -- Case studies.
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Bulgaria Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Gender roles. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- Muslim lives in Eastern Europe. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691139555 (DLC) 2008056088 (OCoLC)298467927 |
| ISBN |
9781400831357 (electronic book) |
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1400831350 (electronic book) |
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9780691139548 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691139547 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780691139555 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0691139555 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612794896 |
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