Muslims and Christians in the Bulgarian Rhodopes. Studies on Religious (Anti)Syncretism

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

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Publication Date: Sep 14, 2015

Number of Pages: 350 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 3110439999

ISBN-13: 9783110439991