Sufism in Post-Soviet Russia: Searching for Enchantment and a Paradigm Shift.

Sufism in post-Soviet Russia is a complex phenomenon that resists common methodological assumptions current in the sociology of religion and cultural studies, especially the oft-cited notions of disenchantment or re-enchantment and cognitive paradigm shift. This article demonstrates that discontinui...

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Publicado en:Welt des Islams Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 145 - 184
Autor principal: Knysh, Alexander
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Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2023
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