Introduction : Sacred Geographies and Identity Claims: The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Post-Soviet Space

Puppo, Lili Di; Schmoller, Jesko

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“…Yet as elsewhere, such popular expressions have gained new legitimacy, visibility, and vitality; even more so considering the radical privatisation that was enforced during the communist era. As elsewhere, popular pilgrimages, for example, are experiencing a massive revival that takes blatantly consumerised forms, as they are promoted by the Church through travel companies, blurring the distinction between religion and tourism (Di Puppo & Schmoller, 2019;Seraïdiri, 2018). As elsewhere, the Orthodox Church is making organisational changes by which 'modern' management, accounting, marketing, communication, and branding practices are being implemented, blurring the boundaries between religion and management, advertising, and economics.…”

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Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market

Gauthier

2021

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This article mobilises an analytical framework developed by the author in a series of solo and joint publications according to which religion has shifted from a Nation-State to a Global-Market regime, which it applies to the case of Eastern European Orthodox majority countries, including Russia, in modern times. Bringing together a large amount of research in a synthetic objective, it first examines how religion in Eastern Europe was nationalised and statised from the end of the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It looks at the particularities of the communist experience, and shows how it is best understood as a form of radicalisation of National-Statist trends. It then shows how neoliberal reforms have integrated these countries in wider global flows. The remainder of the article looks at different trends from the perspective of marketisation: the coextensive rise of Orthodoxy affiliation and nationalism, the qualitative changes within Orthodoxy, as well as the parallel developments of New Age derived spirituality and Pentecostalism, the two ideal-typical religious forms in the Global-Market regime, and by linking them to specific experiences of globalisation and social determinants. The conclusion argues that the rise of nationalism and authoritarianism as well as the religious trends that are developing today are the consequences of neoliberal reforms, the penetration of consumerism as a dominant ethos, and thus generalised marketisation.

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Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market

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2021

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“…In Oparin’s contribution, we witness a process of re-enchanting the world through the ritual purification of certain urban sites and interaction with the otherworldly. The existence of an otherworldly realm also draws attention to the ongoing process of the (re)sacralisation and (re)creation of Muslim spaces through pilgrimage rituals (see Di Puppo and Schmoller, 2019a, 2019b).…”

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Introduction: Normative orders and the remaking of Muslim spaces and selves in contemporary Russia

Puppo

Schmoller

2020

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The aim of this special issue is to explore, from the perspective of various notions of space, the manifold ways in which Muslims in Russia live and practice their religion. We aim to analyse how Muslims in Russia are confronted in the practice of their religion with various conceptual and experiential realms. These realms correspond to certain divisions that they must negotiate and navigate. Examples of these include the boundaries between the secular and the religious; the public and the private; the official and the informal or unofficial; the local and the translocal/transregional/transnational; halal and haram, etc. Looking at Islam through the lens of space allows us to explore the dynamic ways in which Muslims in Russia have continued to creatively redefine, negotiate, reinforce, alter and dissolve these boundaries and divides since the fall of the Soviet Union. Diverse experiences and perceptions of Muslim spaces further help us to relate the question of the (re)appearance of these Muslim spaces to the process of de-secularisation that is currently taking place in post-Soviet Russia. In particular, we aim to clarify how the relationship between the secular realm and the Islamic religion is being reconfigured by examining how Muslim lives integrate, transcend and alter the normative dichotomies that are present in official discourses on Islam. We thus want to look ethnographically at the relationship between the ways in which normative categories define and delimit certain realms and the ways in which Muslims live their religion by creatively shaping and experiencing spaces that go beyond these normative divisions. In addition, this special issue explores the question of how the (re)creation of Muslim spaces is linked to processes of becoming Muslim, of cultivating a Muslim self and of experiencing different (but often simultaneous) identities and forms of personhood.

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“…Discussions of Islamic spaces have often given centre stage to places of worship and devotionmosques, shrines, pilgrimage sites, and so forth (Harris and Dawut 2002;Harris 2015;Walton 2015;Fatima 2016; Di Puppo and Schmoller 2019Schmoller , 2020. Such landscape features, thanks to their concreteness and their clear ("objective") function, make for a relatively comfortable subject of social-scientific treatment.…”

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“…Second, the past decades have witnessed a growing interest in "traditional" pilgrimage sites in Tatarstan (Urazmanova et al 2014;Di Puppo and Schmoller 2019). Again, scripture-oriented pietists are ambivalent towards such places, on the ground of the weak doctrinal foundations of "folk" devotion, and, to some extent, because of the aura of provincialism that some younger Muslims, steeped in the cosmopolitan and modernist ethos of reform movements, attribute to local pilgrimage.…”

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Pietaskscapes of halal living: subjectivity, striving, and space-making in Muslim Russia

Benussi

2021

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Drawing on ethnographic research in Tatarstan (Russia) and through an engagement with Foucauldian, phenomenological, and ecological social theories, this paper advances the concept of piety taskscape, or "pietaskscape", to indicate the granular, organically emerging meshwork of settings and locations where Muslim pietists carry out self-fashioning. This concept aspires to grasp the nexus of ethical action, space-making, and experience, in concrete human environments such as the post-Soviet city. Such a concept may prove a valuable contribution to scholarly conversations about religion and space by placing subjectivity, performativity, teleology, and materiality in resonance with each other. It will be argued that, compared to alternative approaches, this framework affords greater analytical insight into the spatiality of Muslim piety beyond the scholarly box of Islamic "sites".

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Introduction : Sacred Geographies and Identity Claims: The Revival of Sacred Sites in the Post-Soviet Space

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market

Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market

Introduction: Normative orders and the remaking of Muslim spaces and selves in contemporary Russia

Pietaskscapes of halal living: subjectivity, striving, and space-making in Muslim Russia

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