The Image of Islam in Russia
This book covers the developing and important issue of the role and place of Islam in the increasingly complex dynamics of Russian politics. It is achieved by examining various aspects of Islam and Muslims in Russia from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Islam and Muslims are currently at the forefront of popular culture, mass media and political imaginations in the age of the Global War on Terrorism. Frequently, these are for the wrong reasons as they are not well understood, but rather stereotypically misrepresented, often for various political reasons. Russia is also highly stereotyped; the diverse and mysterious country is often misunderstood in terms of the communicated cultural, social and political images. This book is an attempt to expose and analyse the wealth in diversity of Islam and Muslims in Russia, a country where different religions have occupied the same political spaces, for better and worse, for many centuries. The content of this book is focused upon the contemporary social, political, cultural and identity contexts of Russia in terms of the interrelated dynamics and forces that are shaping the relations and place of Islam and Muslims in Russia today.
The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Religion, State & Society.
Greg Simons is Associate Professor with the IRES at Uppsala University, Sweden; at Department of Communication Sciences and a Leading Researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University, Riga, Latvia; a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The Image of Islam in Russia
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Greg Simons
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Contents
Greg Simons
Bulat Akhmetkarimov
Kaarina Aitamurto
Open Access: Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinovs Russian Islam
Michael Kemper
Gulnaz Sibgatullina
Sofya Ragozina
Erik Vlaeminck
Liliya Karimova
was originally published in the Religion, State & Society, volume 48, issue 1 (January 2020). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
The image of Islam in Russia
Greg Simons
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 174179
Chapter 1
Islamic practice and state policies towards religion in post-Soviet Russia
Bulat Akhmetkarimov
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 180197
Chapter 2
Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in Russia
Kaarina Aitamurto
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 198213
Chapter 3
Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinovs Russian Islam
Michael Kemper
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 214233
Chapter 4
Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox Church
Gulnaz Sibgatullina
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 234247
Chapter 5
Constructing the image of Islam in contemporary Russian print media: the language strategies and politics of misrepresentation
Sofya Ragozina
Religion, State & Society, volume 48, issue 1 (January 2020) pp. 2237
Chapter 6
Islamic masculinities in action: the construction of masculinity in Russian visual culture about the Chechen wars
Erik Vlaeminck
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 248264
Chapter 7
Crafting mosque-state relations through community-service work: the case of Yardam mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan
Liliya Karimova
Religion, State & Society, volume 47, issue 2 (April 2019) pp. 265281
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Kaarina Aitamurto Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bulat Akhmetkarimov The Institute of International Relations, Kazan Federal University, Russia.
Liliya Karimova Department of Organizational Sciences and Communication, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
Michael Kemper Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Sofya Ragozina Journal Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov v Rossii i za rubezhom (State, Religion, and Church in Russia and Worldwide), Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Russia. Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Gulnaz Sibgatullina Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The Netherlands.
Greg Simons Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden. Department of Communication Sciences, Turiba University, Riga, Latvia, Humanitarian Insitute, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Erik Vlaeminck Independent scholar, Berlin, Germany.
Greg Simons iD
ABSTRACT
Russia has a long, complicated and, at times, contradictory relationship with Islam and Muslims. Islam is classified as one of the traditional religions, along with Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. Throughout Russias history across the centuries, the efforts by the state and Muslims to define their relationship have led to contradictory outcomes. This special issue grew out of a conference that took place in 2016, seeking to explore the complicated nature of the image of Islam in Russia from a multidisciplinary perspective. A collection of seven contributions explore how Islam is viewed and projected in the public and media sphere in contemporary Russia, including state attempts to manage the development of Islam, initiatives to transform the public image of Muslims and the charitable work of a mosque at the local level.