LEADER 04638nam 22007695 450 001 996248285503316 005 20190708092533.0 010 $a1-282-79489-2 010 $a9786612794896 010 $a1-4008-3135-0 010 $a0-691-13954-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831357 035 $a(CKB)2560000000324430 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616677 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43077 035 $a(DE-B1597)453698 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831357 035 $a(OCoLC)677987523 035 $a(dli)HEB32506 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000106 035 $a(OCoLC)979881635 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000324430 100 $a20190708d2009 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMuslim Lives in Eastern Europe $eGender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria /$fKristen Ghodsee 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $axvi, 252 p. $cill 225 0 $aPrinceton Studies in Muslim Politics ;$v29 311 $a0-691-13955-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tA Note on Transliteration -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. The Changing Face of Islam in Bulgaria -- $tChapter One. Names to Be Buried With -- $tChapter Two. Men and Mines -- $tChapter Three. The Have-nots and the Have-nots -- $tChapter Four. Divide and Be Conquered -- $tChapter Five. Islamic Aid -- $tChapter Six. The Miniskirt and the Veil -- $tConclusion. Minarets after Marx -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aMuslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks, Slavic Muslims living in the remote mountains of southern Bulgaria. After Communism fell in 1989, Muslim minorities in Bulgaria sought to rediscover their faith after decades of state-imposed atheism. But instead of returning to their traditionally heterodox roots, isolated groups of Pomaks embraced a distinctly foreign type of Islam, which swept into their communities on the back of Saudi-financed international aid to Balkan Muslims, and which these Pomaks believe to be a more correct interpretation of their religion. Ghodsee explores how gender relations among the Pomaks had to be renegotiated after the collapse of both Communism and the region's state-subsidized lead and zinc mines. She shows how mosques have replaced the mines as the primary site for jobless and underemployed men to express their masculinity, and how Muslim women have encouraged this as a way to combat alcoholism and domestic violence. Ghodsee demonstrates how women's embrace of this new form of Islam has led them to adopt more conservative family roles, and how the Pomaks' new religion remains deeply influenced by Bulgaria's Marxist-Leninist legacy, with its calls for morality, social justice, and human solidarity. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in Muslim politics. 517 3 $aGender, ethnicity, and the transformation of Islam in postsocialist Bulgaria 606 $aCommunism$xSocial aspects$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aSocial change$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aEthnicity$xPolitical aspects$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aSex role$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aIslam and politics$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aIslam$xSocial aspects$zBulgaria$vCase studies 606 $aMuslims$zBulgaria$zMadan (Smoli?anski okru?g)$xSocial conditions 606 $aMuslims$zBulgaria$xSocial conditions$vCase studies 607 $aBulgaria$xReligious life and customs$vCase studies 607 $aBulgaria$xHistory$y1990- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommunism$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial change 615 0$aEthnicity$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aIslam and politics 615 0$aIslam$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMuslims$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aMuslims$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.6/9709499 700 $aGhodsee$b Kristen, $01016816 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248285503316 996 $aMuslim Lives in Eastern Europe$92381223 997 $aUNISA