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001			https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54153
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020			_a9783110440003
020			_a9783110440003
020			_a9783110470611
024	7		_a10.1515/9783110440003 _cdoi
041	0		_aEnglish
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100	1		_aLubanska, Magdalena _4auth
245	1	0	_aMuslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes – Studies on Religious (Anti) Syncretism
260			_bDe Gruyter _c2015
300			_a1 electronic resource (350 p.)
506	0		_aOpen Access _2star _fUnrestricted online access
520			_aThe book by Magdalena Lubanska examines the role of religious syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes. The author is interested mainly in the origins and motivations of various beliefs and behaviors which at first sight may appear to be syncretic. She looks at syncretism in the context of anti-syncretic tendencies, particularly pronounced among the Muslim neophytes and young members of the Muslim religious elite, who are not interested in the local forms of post-ottoman Islam (“Adat Islam”), preferring instead a “pure” form of religion, a class of fundamentalist religious movements rooted in orthodox Islam and seeking to remain faithful to mainstream Islamic thought and tradition (“Salafi Islam”). Lubanska findings offer an insight into the fact that although certain actions may appear syncretic in nature, their underlying intentions are often not in fact motivated by syncretic tendencies. This is the first study to look at syncretism in Bulgaria from this perspective.
540			_aCreative Commons _fhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ _2cc _4https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
546			_aEnglish
653			_aIslam
653			_aReligious Syncretism
653			_aBulgaria
653			_aRhodopes
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110440003 _70 _zDOAB: download the publication
856	4	0	_awww.oapen.org _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/54153 _70 _zDOAB: description of the publication
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