Post-Socialist Sufi Revival in Albania: Public Marginality or Spiritual Privatisation?

This work analyses the case of Sufi revival in post-socialist Albania, where the religious field has been fragmented by the competing actions of different actors (local, regional and foreign) and by the critical and individualised religiosity of the faithful. Sufi public life is substantially margin...

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Main Author: Bria, Gianfranco (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Journal of Muslims in Europe
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 313-334
Further subjects:B Secularisation
B Post-socialism
B Balkans
B Sufism
B Albania
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