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Accommodation of Islamic Religious Practices and Democracy in the Post-Communist Muslim Republics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2013

Renat Shaykhutdinov
Renat Shaykhutdinov*
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Florida Atlantic University
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Renat Shaykhutdinov, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431. E-mail: rshaykhu@fau.edu
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Abstract

The literature on state accommodation of Muslim religious practices has focused on the regional context of Western Europe and North America. In this project, I identify and compare state policies toward Islamic religious practices using a sample of 22 former communist Muslim republics of Eurasia. For this purpose, I construct an original dataset collected from a variety of sources. Employing the number of mosques functioning in each post-communist Muslim republic as the measure of state accommodation of religious practices I find that among all factors the level of democracy is the single most important variable in explaining variation in accommodation of Islamic religious practices. To further demonstrate significance of these results I trace the process of democratic influence on state accommodation of religious policies examining in-depth the case of Tatars both in the pre-communist Imperial and revolutionary Russia and the contemporary republic of Tatarstan.

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Politics and Religion , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , September 2013 , pp. 646 - 670
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Copyright © Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association 2013 

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