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" Political Geographies of Religions in Russia: Mosques, Churches, the State, and Social Movements in Moscow "
Meagan Lucinda Todd
O'Loughlin, John
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804754
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TL49590
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1957944520; 10606832
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Murphree, Daniel P.
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Political Geographies of Religions in Russia: Mosques, Churches, the State, and Social Movements in Moscow\ Meagan Lucinda ToddO'Loughlin, John
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Geography
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2017
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305
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Committee members: Fluri, Jennifer; Jan, Najeeb; Johnson, Greg; Sidorov, Dmitrii
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-23160-1
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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.
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Geography
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Social sciences;Civil society;Muslims;Political geography;Religion;Russia
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O'Loughlin, John
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GeographyUniversity of Colorado at Boulder
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