Urban culture, religious conversion, and crossing ethnic fluidity among the Bulgarian Muslims ("Pomaks")

Benovska-Sabkova, Milena

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“…This fact becoming from a number of factors, such as urban culture, that have been influencing the growing closeness between the Bulgarian Christians and the Bulgarian Muslims. Specifically, the expansion of public urban spaces, owed to socialism, made the coexistence of Christians and Muslims in confessionally homogeneous neighbourhoods, such as Zlatograd, possible (Benovska-Sabkova, 2015). The cause that they were at work together, meaning the industrial mining, contributed to the reinforcement of their proximity.…”

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The Evaluation of the Religious Commitment Inventory for Bulgarian Pomak Households

Satsios¹,

Karamanis²,

Galanou³

et al. 2020

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The aim of the research is to evaluate the Religious Commitment Inventory (RCI-10) on a sample of 400 Bulgarian Pomak households across 5 cities. For this purpose, factor analysis was used in order to confirm the factor structure of the religiosity scale. An interesting aspect assumes that the impact of religiosity on the consumer marketing as well as on the social sciences is especially important. Most significantly, this research demonstrates the universality of the religiosity correlation with socio-demographic factors, such as the place of residence, demonstrating the importance of the religiosity level. The results revealed higher levels of religiosity score in cities populated mainly by Muslims, while lower levels score were observed in cities where a Christian community was also present.

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The Evaluation of the Religious Commitment Inventory for Bulgarian Pomak Households

Satsios¹,

Karamanis²,

Galanou³

et al. 2020

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Orthodox Churches and the ‘Othering’ of Islam and Muslims in Today’s Balkans

Račius

2020

J. Muslims Eur.

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The article focuses on the relation between the socio-legal status of national Orthodox Churches and their role in the legal, institutional and social ‘othering’ of Islam and ethnic groups of Muslims in three Balkans countries, namely, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia. The research reveals that the state-pursued construction of national identity and politics of belonging are expressly permeated by ethno-confessional nationalism, which is at the core of the deep-running tensions between the dominant ethnic group and the marginalized Muslims. There is an alliance between the political and the Church elites to keep ethnic groups of Muslim background either altogether outside the ‘national Us’ or at least at its outer margins.

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Urban culture, religious conversion, and crossing ethnic fluidity among the Bulgarian Muslims ("Pomaks")

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The Evaluation of the Religious Commitment Inventory for Bulgarian Pomak Households

The Evaluation of the Religious Commitment Inventory for Bulgarian Pomak Households

Orthodox Churches and the ‘Othering’ of Islam and Muslims in Today’s Balkans

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