Islam in post-Soviet Georgia1
| العنوان: | Islam in post-Soviet Georgia1 |
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| المؤلفون: | Raoul Motika, Bayram Balci |
| المصدر: | Central Asian Survey. 26:335-353 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2007. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | media_common.quotation_subject, Geography, Planning and Development, Islam, State religion, Development, Christianity, State-building, State (polity), Law, Ideology, Sociology, Atheism, Element (criminal law), Earth-Surface Processes, media_common |
| الوصف: | This paper explores Islam in Georgia and analyses empirical results from preliminary field research in Tbilisi, more particularly in Kvemo-Kartli, whose inhabitants are predominantly Shi'ites and ethnic Azeris, as well as in Adjaria, where Sunni Adjars are resisting attempts at (re)-Christianization. Moreover, field inquiries were carried out in the Pankisi Valley, where approximately 6000 Kists live. Most publications dealing with Georgia's history neglect the role of Islam in the process of nation and state building and tend to forget that it was at some point in time one of the constituent components of the country's consolidation as a state. Most scholars insist on recalling that, right after Armenia, Georgia was one of the first nations to adopt Christianity as state religion. Therefore, when referring to Islam, the latter is often presented as an alien, extraneous and aggressive element. After 70 years of Soviet atheism, the newly independent state ideologically and strategically promotes O... |
| تدمد: | 1465-3354 0263-4937 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c3322bd7321ad567a1cde9ed48550dc8Test https://doi.org/10.1080/02634930701702399Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........c3322bd7321ad567a1cde9ed48550dc8 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14653354 02634937 |
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