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Muslim lives in Eastern Europe: gender, ethnicity, and the transformation of Islam in postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton studies in muslim politics)

2010 Princeton university Press ;ISBN: 0691139547 ;ISBN: 0691139555 ;ISBN: 9780691139555 ;ISBN: 9780691139548 ;ISBN: 1400831350 ;ISBN: 9781400831357 ;EISBN: 1400831350 ;EISBN: 9781400831357 ;DOI: 10.1515/9781400831357 ;OCLC: 677987523 ;LCCallNum: DR64.2.M8

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  • Title:
    Muslim lives in Eastern Europe: gender, ethnicity, and the transformation of Islam in postsocialist Bulgaria (Princeton studies in muslim politics)
  • Author: Ghodsee, Kristen
  • Subjects: 1990 ; 1DVWB ; Anthropology ; Bulgaria ; Case studies ; Communism ; Cultural ; Ethnicity ; Gender Studies ; History ; Islam ; Islam and politics ; Islamic Studies ; JFSJ1 ; JFSR2 ; JHMC ; Madan (Smolianski okrug) ; Muslims ; Political aspects ; Religious life and customs ; Sex role ; Social aspects ; Social change ; Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology
  • Description: Muslim Lives in Eastern Europeexamines 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.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 271
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0691139547
    ISBN: 0691139555
    ISBN: 9780691139555
    ISBN: 9780691139548
    ISBN: 1400831350
    ISBN: 9781400831357
    EISBN: 1400831350
    EISBN: 9781400831357
    DOI: 10.1515/9781400831357
    OCLC: 677987523
    LCCallNum: DR64.2.M8
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