RT Article
T1 On Institutional Pluralization and the Political Genealogies of Post-Yugoslav Islam
JF Religion and society
VO 10
IS 1
SP 151
OP 167
A1 Walton, Jeremy F. 1977-
A1 Rexhepi, Piro
LA English
PB Berghahn
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1687982147
AB Over recent decades, Islamic institutions and Muslim communities in the successor nation-states of former Yugoslavia have taken shape against a variegated political and historical topography. In this article, we examine the discourses and politics surrounding Islamic institutions in four post-Yugoslav nation-states: Kosovo, Macedonia, Croatia, and Slovenia. Our analysis moves in two directions. On the one hand, we illuminate the historical legacies and institutional ties that unite Muslims across these four contexts. As we argue, this institutional history continues to mandate a singular, hegemonic model of Sunni-Hanafi Islam that pre-emptively delegitimizes Muslim communities outside of its orbit. On the other hand, we also attend to the contrasting national politics of Islam in each of our four contexts, ranging from Islamophobic anxiety and suspicion to multiculturalism, from a minority politics of differentiation to hegemonic images of ethno-national religiosity.
K1 Balkans
K1 Croatia
K1 Islam
K1 Kosovo
K1 Macedonia
K1 Slovenia
K1 inter-religious tolerance
K1 Religious Pluralism
DO 10.3167/arrs.2019.100111