Essays about: "Adjarian Muslim"

Found 1 essay containing the words Adjarian Muslim.

  1. 1. When Religious, Civil, and National Representations Clash : A Decolonial View on Georgian Muslims as Internal Others

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO)

    Author : Gvantsa Gatenadze; [2023]
    Keywords : Adjara; Adjarian Muslim; Decolonial Approach; Decoloniality; Ethnicization of Religion; Georgia; Soviet Colonialism; Soviet Modernity.;

    Abstract : The othering and exclusion of religious minority groups in Georgia is often understood through the prism of religious nationalism, which is argued to have developed as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the respective need to fill up the leftover systemic void. Ethno-national and religious identity markers were used to create the image of true, pre-Soviet Georgian – Christian, ethnically Georgian group. READ MORE