Muslim–Christian Conversion in Modern Russia and the Idea of Russia as a Eurasian Islamo-Christian S...

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" Muslim–Christian Conversion in Modern Russia and the Idea of Russia as a Eurasian Islamo-Christian Space "
Dominic Rubin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1072625
Doc. No	:	LA116254
Call No	:	‭10.1163/22117954-12341386‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Dominic Rubin
Title & Author	:	Muslim–Christian Conversion in Modern Russia and the Idea of Russia as a Eurasian Islamo-Christian Space [Article]\ Dominic Rubin
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Muslims in Europe
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/1
Page No	:	60–84
Abstract	:	This article examines conversion between Islam and Russian Orthodoxy in contemporary Russia. The author tests the idea that Russia historically constituted an Islamo-Christian Eurasian space, and that this reality has now been revived in the hermeneutic self-perception of government rhetoric as well as in the self-understanding of converts from both religious communities. He concludes that this “hermeneutic space” is real (though not exclusive), and is expressed both in the syncretistic practice of individuals and within communities. However, instead of seeing the Eurasian space as essentialist, the author gives “Eurasianism” a philosophical reconstruction, viewing it as an inter-subjective mental hermeneutic that nonetheless has reality and causality in shaping individual and collective religious identity in Russia today. This article examines conversion between Islam and Russian Orthodoxy in contemporary Russia. The author tests the idea that Russia historically constituted an Islamo-Christian Eurasian space, and that this reality has now been revived in the hermeneutic self-perception of government rhetoric as well as in the self-understanding of converts from both religious communities. He concludes that this “hermeneutic space” is real (though not exclusive), and is expressed both in the syncretistic practice of individuals and within communities. However, instead of seeing the Eurasian space as essentialist, the author gives “Eurasianism” a philosophical reconstruction, viewing it as an inter-subjective mental hermeneutic that nonetheless has reality and causality in shaping individual and collective religious identity in Russia today.
Descriptor	:	hermeneutic
Descriptor	:	Islamo-Christian space
Descriptor	:	religious conversion
Descriptor	:	Russian Orthodoxy
Descriptor	:	Tatar
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/22117954-12341386‬