Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia /
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Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill
2020.
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Series: | Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ;
46. Language and Linguistics E-Books Online, Collection 2020. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Translation and Transliteration
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Earlier Work on the Religious Language and Some Gaps in the Research on the Sociology of Language and Religion
- 1.2 Languages across Faith Communities
- 1.3 Research Questions
- 1.4 Defining Religious Language
- 1.5 The Structure of This Book
- 1.6 Outline of Chapters
- 2 Mapping the Discourse on Religion in Russia
- 2.1 Official Religious Institutions Vis-à-Vis the State
- 2.2 The Many Faces of Russia's Orthodox Christianity
- 2.3 Competing Definitions of the Tatar Islam
- 2.4 Conclusion The Russian Language of Islam
- 3 Translating Islam into the Language of the Russian State and the ROC
- 3.1 Data and Method
- 3.2 Lexical Aspects
- 3.3 Textual Structures
- 3.4 Conclusion
- 4 Discursive Strategies in Conversion Narratives of Russian Muslims
- 4.1 Conversion to Islam in the Post-Soviet Period
- 4.2 Discursive Strategies in Conversion Narratives
- 4.3 Conclusion
- 5 Envisioning a Russian(-Speaking) Umma
- 5.1 Ali Viacheslav Polosin: Biography and Conversion
- 5.2 Islam as a Liberal State Ideology (2000-2006)
- 5.3 The Path of Moderation (2007-2015)
- 5.4 Defining the "Right" Muslims (2016-Present)
- 5.5 Conclusion The Tatar Language of Christianity
- 6 Daniil Sysoev: Mission and Martyrdom
- 6.1 The Making of a Saint
- 6.2 Uranopolitism versus Patriotism
- 6.3 Evangelism among Muslims
- 6.4 Conclusion
- 7 From Religious to Ethnic Minority: Discourses on Kräshens
- 7.1 Constructing the Other: Imperial and Soviet Policies
- 7.2 Kräshen Ethnic Identity in the Post-Soviet Period
- 7.3 Alternative Christianity
- 7.4 Conclusion
- 8 Battle of the Books: Tatar Translations of the New Testament
- 8.1 Translation Projects
- 8.2 Translation Strategies
- 8.3 Non-Orthodox Christian Communities Using Tatar
- 8.4 Conclusion
- 9 Conclusions
- 9.1 Convergence in the "Traditionalism" Box
- 9.2 Language as a Mirror
- 9.3 Toward a Painful Merger
- 9.4 Language, Religion and Translation: Negotiating the Difference
- Bibliography
- Index.