Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783110439991)

The book studies the role of religious syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian communities in the Western Rhodopes. The author places emphasis on analysing the symbolic dimension and the cultural function of syncretism in order to determine whether it helps to integrate the two religious groups, or is perhaps a kind of pretence obscuring their underlying isolationist and anti-syncretic tendencies.

Author: Magdalena Lubanska
ISBN-10: 3110439999
ISBN-13: 9783110439991
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2015
Pages: 350
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.60w x 1.00d