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Author Wiktor-Mach, Dobroslawa

Title Religious Revival and Secularism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan : n.a
Published Berlin/Boston, GERMANY : De Gruyter, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (244)
Series Religion and Society ; 71
Contents Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Chapter 1. Religion as a Field of Competition; Chapter 2. Islam in the Caucasus: Historical Contexts of Religious Pluralism; Chapter 3. Islamic Modernism and Secularism; Chapter 4. The Lived Islam; Chapter 5. Religious Revival and the Plurality of Choices; Chapter 6. Choosing Religion: Strategies and Discourses; Chapter 7. Religious Competition; Chapter 8. State control: Heretic-Hunting; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the form
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Subject Islam -- Azerbaijan
Sunnites -- Relations -- Shīʻah.
Shīʻah -- Relations -- Sunnites.
Islamic modernism -- Azerbaijan
Islamic fundamentalism -- Azerbaijan
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic modernism
Shīʻah
Sunnites
Azerbaijan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3110536463
9783110536461