Informal Networks in the Black Sea Region: The Case of Georgian Muslim Boarding Houses
In 2014, local community members nailed a pig’s head to the door of a Muslim boarding house in Kobuleti, a small town in Adjara, to argue that ‘this is a Christian place.’ They expressed fears about the building owner, who was thought to be of Turkish origin. Enlargement of the boarding house was pe...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2021, Volume: 14, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 297-322 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Georgia
/ Christianity
/ Religious identity
/ Contention
/ Islam
/ Lodging-houses (Beherbergungsbetrieb)
/ Network
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CG Christianity and Politics KBK Europe (East) |
| Further subjects: | B
Adjara
B Network B informality B Religion B Muslim boarding house B Borders |
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| Summary: | In 2014, local community members nailed a pig’s head to the door of a Muslim boarding house in Kobuleti, a small town in Adjara, to argue that ‘this is a Christian place.’ They expressed fears about the building owner, who was thought to be of Turkish origin. Enlargement of the boarding house was perceived as a possible Islamization of the town and an increase of transborder flows in the region. In this article, I examine the agency of the boarding houses in Adjara through human and non-human actors. At the same time, I look at the legal responses of the state and official structures for controlling informalities embedded in the boarding houses’ networks. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-bja10063 |