Статья профессора факультета истории ЕУСПб Альфрида Бустанова (совместно с Михаэлем Кемпером, Университет Амстердама) Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions: Languages of Conversion, Competition and Convergence опубликована в журнале Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations.
Alfrid K. Bustanov (Department of History, European University at St Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia) and Michael Kemper (Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The five articles gathered here offer glimpses of the diversity of Islam in Russia, and of
Islam’s complex interaction with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). We do not look
at the core of the officially promoted faith bureaucracies that usually attract most atten-
tion, the Moscow Patriarchate and Russia’s various Muftiates. Rather, we attempt to
map the vibrant field at the margins or beyond these large religious apparatuses. What
is the agency of academic experts and journalists, of Orthodox and Islamic missionaries,
and also of radical Muslim public intellectuals and jihadist ideologists? How do they
operate in the Russian political environment, where the official religious authorities are
largely co-opted by the state, and where all religious issues are highly sensitive?..