From the ashes of atheism: The reconstitution of Bektashi religious life in postcommunist Albania
[Thesis]
Mentor Mustafa
Lindholm, Charles T.; Hefner, Robert W.
Boston University
2015
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Committee members: Barfield, Thomas J.; Krokus, Melinda; White, Jenny B.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-92561-6
Ph.D.
Anthropology
Boston University
2015
This thesis is an historical and ethnographic account of the postcommunist reconstitution of Albanian Bektashi Sufi practices and community life in the aftermath of a state-based program of radical atheistic secularism. The study is based on 12 months of intensive anthropological fieldwork (9 months in 2007 and shorter research trips between 2005 and 2011) and archival research.
Cultural anthropology; East European Studies; Islamic Studies
Social sciences;Albanian studies;Anthropology of religion;Ethnography;Islam;Post communism;Sufism