Maria Mateoniu Micu The National Romanian Peasant Museum [mariamateoniu@gmail.com] The Relationship between Orthodoxy and Politics in Dictatorship and Democracy The Exemplary Case of Saint Nicholas Monastery (Romania) Abstract: The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between orthodoxy and politics in dictatorship and democracy analyzing in the case study of Saint-Nicolas Monastery (Romania),…
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Sercan Eklemezler, Selda Adiloğlu
Sercan Eklemezler Bursa Technical University, Turkey [sercan.eklemezler@btu.edu.tr], ORCID: 0000-0003-3198-8413 Selda Adiloğlu Bursa Technical University, Turkey [selda.adiloglu@btu.edu.tr], ORCID: 0000-0002-9725-436X From Minority to Immigrant: The Education and Cross-Country Teaching Experiences of Turks of Bulgaria Abstract: Through the testimonies of those who have experienced teaching in two countries with different political and economic systems, the study aims to…
Svitlana Кryvoruchko
Svitlana Кryvoruchko Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University [serka7@ukr.net]; ORCID: 0000-0002-1123-9258 Reflections on the Archetype of Home in the Feature Film “Homeward” Abstract: The grief and the pain of the Crimean Tatar people is reflected in art (cinema). It is necessary to find out how the tragic fate of the Crimean Tatars was conveyed by poetic…
Nana Kajaia, Asmat Ardzenadze
Nana Kajaia Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia [nana.kajaia@bsu.edu.ge], ORCID: 0009-0002-1102-9039 Asmat Ardzenadze Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Georgia [asmat.ardzenadze@bsu.edu.ge], ORCID: 0009-0009-5905-2298 Muslim Women of Ajara: Certain Aspects of Their Sociocultural and Sociolinguistic Portrait Abstract: The present paper deals with the distinctive aspects of the assimilation process experienced by Muslim women in Ajara while adjusting…
Jumber Vardmanidze
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619460 Jumber Vardmanidze Batumi State Maritime Academy, Georgia [j.vardmanidze@bsma.edu.ge] Conformity and Consensus in Southwestern Georgia after the Establishment of Russian Imperial Authority: the Role of the Russian Empire in the Resettlement of the Local Population (Muhajirism) Abstract: The political history of the Caucasus is marked by enduring complexity and multifaceted contestation, driven by the region’s…
Mariyana Piskova
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619325 Mariyana Piskova South-West University „Neofit Rilski“, Blagoevgrad [piskova@gmail.com] Muslims in the ‘Lens’ of Photo Propaganda, 1950s – 1980s in the 20th Century Abstract: The article seeks to answer the question of what photographic representations of Muslims were left behind by the photo propaganda institution in Bulgaria during the communist regime from the 1950s to…
Salih Borovin
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619273 Salih Borovin New Bulgarian University [sborovin@nbu.bg] Memories in the Present: The Post-Memory of Assimilationist Policies Toward Muslims in Bulgaria (1960s–1970s) Abstract: This article explores how memories of the assimilationist policies targeting Muslim communities in Bulgaria during the 1960s and 1970s are transmitted across generations. Drawing on the concept of “post-memory,” the research examines the…
Yelis Erolova
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619147 Yelis Erolova Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM – BAS) [yeliserolova@gmail.com], ORCID: 0000-0002-3578-9852 The Spontaneous and Forced Assimilation of the Turkish Women in Urban and Rural Environment during the Socialist Period in Bulgaria (Examples from the Svishtov Region) Abstract: During the totalitarian communist regime (1944–1989) in…
Georgeta Nazаrska
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619112 Georgeta Nazаrska University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, Sofia [g.nazarska@unibit.bg], ORCID: 0000-0002-6448-3692 Muslim Women under the ‘Care’ of the State Women’s Organizations in Bulgaria (1950s‒1980s) Abstract: The article examines the policies towards ethno-religious communities led by the totalitarian state in communist Bulgaria in the 1950s-1980s. Specifically, the work of the state women’s organizations…
Tamila Davitadze, Nana Mazmishvili
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15619077 Tamila Davitadze Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia [tamila.davitadze@bsu.edu.ge] Nana Mazmishvili Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia [nana.mazmishvili@bsu.edu.ge] Religion and Women in Adjara Abstract: The attitude of Islam towards women’s issues is not at all uniform. Two tendencies can be observed in it: the first, reactionary or conservative, which…