Vernacular Entanglements: Islam and Communism in a Bulgarian Village

Enchevêtrements vernaculaires : islam et communisme dans un village bulgare

Detelina Tocheva (1)

1 GSRL - Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

Throughout the three decades following the demise of state-socialism in Bulgaria, the terms “communism” and “communist” have been used continuously by all kinds of actors to respond to a plethora of contemporary challenges. Based on ethnographic research in a village in the Rhodope Mountains among Bulgarian Muslims, this article examines how various meanings of “communism” and “communist” have been called upon constantly by members of all generations in order to negotiate Islamic practice and codes of conduct, those deemed local and usual, and those considered as imported from the outside.

Mots clés: Islam; Communism; Bulgarian Muslims; Bulgaria

Domaines: Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie

Detelina Tocheva. Vernacular Entanglements: Islam and Communism in a Bulgarian Village. Balkanologie, 2020, 15 (2), ⟨10.4000/balkanologie.2627⟩. ⟨halshs-03091241⟩