Islam in Post-Communist Eastern Europe : Between Churchification and Securitization

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ISBN 10: 9004425349 / ISBN 13: 9789004425347

Editore: Brill Mai 2020, 2020

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Neuware - In Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe: Between Churchification and Securitization Egdunas Racius reveals how not only the governance of religions but also practical politics in post-communist Eastern Europe are permeated by the strategies of churchification and securitization of Islam. Though most Muslims and the majority of researchers of Islam hold to the view that there may not be church in Islam, material evidence suggests that the representative Muslim religious organizations in many Eastern European countries have been effectively turned into ecclesiastical-bureaucratic institutions akin to nothing less than 'national Muslim Churches'. As such, these 'national Muslim Churches' themselves take an active part in securitization, advanced by both non-Muslim political and social actors, of certain forms of Islamic religiosity.

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• Titolo: Islam in Post-Communist Eastern Europe : Between Churchification and Securitization
• Editore: Brill Mai 2020
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9004425349
• ISBN 13: 9789004425347
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 236 L x 155 A x 20 P (millimetri) 236 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 20 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 499 grammi

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In Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe: Between Churchification and Securitization Egdūnas Račius reveals how not only the governance of religions but also practical politics in post-communist Eastern Europe are permeated by the strategies of churchification and securitization of Islam. Though most Muslims and the majority of researchers of Islam hold to the view that there may not be church in Islam, material evidence suggests that the representative Muslim religious organizations in many Eastern European countries have been effectively turned into ecclesiastical-bureaucratic institutions akin to nothing less than ‘national Muslim Churches’. As such, these ‘national Muslim Churches’ themselves take an active part in securitization, advanced by both non-Muslim political and social actors, of certain forms of Islamic religiosity.

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Egdnas Raius, Ph.D. (2004), University of Helsinki, is Senior Researcher in the project Post-secular Condition at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His research focuses on Eastern European Muslim communities. He is the author of Muslims in Eastern Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).