The book by Magdalena Lubanska examines the role of religious
syncretism in the social and religious life of Muslim-Christian
communities in the Western Rhodopes. The author is interested
mainly in the origins and motivations of various beliefs and
behaviors which at first sight may appear to be syncretic. She
looks at syncretism in the context of anti-syncretic tendencies,
particularly pronounced among the Muslim neophytes and young
members of the Muslim religious elite, who are not interested in
the local forms of post-ottoman Islam ("Adat Islam"), preferring
instead a "pure" form of religion, a class of fundamentalist
religious movements rooted in orthodox Islam and seeking to remain
faithful to mainstream Islamic thought and tradition ("Salafi
Islam"). Lubanska findings offer an insight into the fact that
although certain actions may appear syncretic in nature, their
underlying intentions are often not in fact motivated by syncretic
tendencies. This is the first study to look at syncretism in
Bulgaria from this perspective.
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