Open AccessEthno-confessional syncretism in Islam (on the example of Crimea)
Author(s) -
Oleksandr N. Sagan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2006.37.1710
Subject(s) - confessional , syncretism (linguistics) , islam , universality (dynamical systems) , christianity , religious studies , philosophy , sociology , political science , law , theology , linguistics , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
Despite being far higher than, for example, Christianity, the claims of cosmopolitanism and universality, the desire to disassociate from national factors, Islam is still fully embedded in the conventional system of ethno-confessional syncretism, which, without disclosing in detail (because of its limitations) processes can be reduced to the following main components