عنوان

Political Geographies of Religions in Russia: Mosques, Churches, the State, and Social Movements in Moscow

Number

TL49590

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Political Geographies of Religions in Russia: Mosques, Churches, the State, and Social Movements in Moscow

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Meagan Lucinda Todd

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

O'Loughlin, John

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Colorado at Boulder

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

305

Text of Note

Committee members: Fluri, Jennifer; Jan, Najeeb; Johnson, Greg; Sidorov, Dmitrii

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23160-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Geography

Body granting the degree

University of Colorado at Boulder

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation explores the discourse and politics of citizenship and minority rights in Russia. In particular I am concerned with analyzing the ways in which Muslim minorities negotiate restrictions on religious practices in Moscow's public spaces. I examine the challenges and experiences that Moscow's Muslim communities face in forging public communities and, in particular, in constructing new places of worship. Religious construction projects in general and mosques in particular generate new forms of local activism in Moscow. I use qualitative methods to analyze how contestations over religious sites generate new configurations of publics in Moscow. 29 in-depth interviews with key informants provide insight as to how religious communities navigate their rapid growth within Russia's managed democracy, while 95 street interviews of 10-20 minutes and participant observation portray the everyday experience of Muslim communities. Analyses of key texts, speeches, and documents from a myriad of sources, including national newspapers and the archives of community activist groups supplement these interviews by providing a look at the role that social, religious, and state institutions play in shaping Moscow's religio-political geographies.

Geography

Subject Term

Social sciences;Civil society;Muslims;Political geography;Religion;Russia

Murphree, Daniel P.

O'Loughlin, John

Subdivision

Geography

University of Colorado at Boulder

Call Number

1957944520; 10606832

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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