A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region
This article engages with the negotiation of Russian history and culture, focussing on the concept of tradition. Instead of contesting the concept of tradition as it is used by the state authorities, members of the Muslim minority in Russia tend to indicate tradition to claim their own culture, di...
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This article engages with the negotiation of Russian history and culture, focussing on the concept of tradition. Instead of contesting the concept of tradition as it is used by the state authorities, members of the Muslim minority in Russia tend to indicate tradition to claim their own culture, distinct from a new national culture stressing Orthodox Christianity and Slavic origins. By undertaking a pilgrimage to sacred sites in the south of Perm Krai, Muslim believers from the Russian Urals reconnect with the land and help to restore a lived Muslim culture that has suffered from Soviet repression and which is mostly ignored by the more recent nation-building strategies.
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| spelling | doaj.art-678ac6b220c549debee148f4a4f6c0392022-12-22T02:29:50ZengCERES / KHK BochumEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer2363-66962022-11-0113810.46586/er.13.2022.9916A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural RegionJesko Schmoller This article engages with the negotiation of Russian history and culture, focussing on the concept of tradition. Instead of contesting the concept of tradition as it is used by the state authorities, members of the Muslim minority in Russia tend to indicate tradition to claim their own culture, distinct from a new national culture stressing Orthodox Christianity and Slavic origins. By undertaking a pilgrimage to sacred sites in the south of Perm Krai, Muslim believers from the Russian Urals reconnect with the land and help to restore a lived Muslim culture that has suffered from Soviet repression and which is mostly ignored by the more recent nation-building strategies. https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9916IslamRussian Orthodox Churchlocal pilgrimagelived religiontraditionheritage |
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| title | A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region |
| title_full | A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region |
| title_fullStr | A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region |
| title_short | A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region |
| title_sort | place of one s own pilgrimage and the reinterpretation of culture in russia s ural region |
| topic | Islam Russian Orthodox Church local pilgrimage lived religion tradition heritage |
| url | https://er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER/article/view/9916 |
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