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- Title
Początek świata: żywoty proroków jako źródła religijnych dystynkcji w narracjach bułgarskojęzycznych muzułmanów.
- Authors
Lubańska, Magdalena
- Abstract
This paper draws on data collected through the ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2002 and 2009 in the Central and Western Rhodope Mountains. In my studies I aimed to verify the thesis of Bulgarian-speaking Muslims' syncretic religiosity, believed by some Bulgarian scholars to preserve strong crypto-Christian components. Asked about motivations behind their religious practices, Muslims often evoked cosmological narratives. These narratives are of crucial importance in the process of legitimising their religion in a multi-faith neighborhood. Referring to the main topic of this volume of "Slavia Meridionalis" I focus on the possible "ideological" backgrounds to these stories. I consider them as examples of the vanishing post-Ottoman influences on Bulgarian Muslims' religious culture.
- Subjects
RELIGIOUS life of Muslims; PROPHETS in the Qur'an; ISLAM &; other religions; SYNCRETISM (Religion); METAPHYSICAL cosmology; POMAKS
- Publication
Slavia Meridionalis, 2014, Vol 14, p148
- ISSN
1233-6173
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11649/sm.2014.006