Islam and Religious Transformation in Adjara

Liles, Thomas

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URL http://edoc.vifapol.de/opus/volltexte/2012/3856/
Dokumentart: Bericht / Forschungsbericht / Abhandlung
Institut: ECMI - European Centre for Minority Issues
Schriftenreihe: ECMI working paper // European Centre for Minority Issues = Working paper
Bandnummer: 57
ISBN: 1435-9812
Sprache: Englisch
Erstellungsjahr: 2012
Publikationsdatum: 30.05.2012
Originalveröffentlichung: http://www.ecmi.de/uploads/tx_lfpubdb/Working_Paper_57_En.pdf (2012)
SWD-Schlagwörter: Religiöse Identität , Georgien , Islam , Christentum
DDC-Sachgruppe: Politik
BK - Basisklassifikation: 73.73 (Ethnische Identität), 15.74 (Russland), 11.80 (Islam: Allgemeines), 11.57 (Ostchristentum)
Sondersammelgebiete: 3.6 Politik und Friedensforschung

Kurzfassung auf Deutsch:

The Autonomous Republic of Adjara, located in the southwest corner of Georgia along the Turkish border, has been the scene of a peculiar religious transformation in the last two decades. Specifically, large segments of Adjara's traditionally Muslim population have undergone a relatively quick rate of conversion to Christianity. Whereas the region's population was predominantly Muslim at the time of the Soviet Union's collapse, or at least nominally so after seven decades of official Soviet atheism, more recent figures indicate that Adjara's confessional makeup is approximately 65% Christian and 30% Muslim. Unlike Georgia's other Muslim groups in the Kvemo Kartli region and Pankisi, where Muslims are ethnic Azeris and Kists, respectively, Adjara's Muslims are ethnically Georgian.


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