New-Age Islam in Russia Enchantment and Alternative Healing among the Volga Tatars
Geistes- sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Anzeiger 2023 Agnès Kefeli
In the 1990s, the language of esotericism and holistic healing permeated Eurasian intellectual discourse as Volga Tatars discussed the place and the nature of Islam in their personal and communal experience. This interest in esoteric enchantment was far from being a Western import, but rather stemmed from a post-war reaction against Soviet rationality through the rediscovery of Russian...