The “Invisible” Islam (Syncretic Religious Beliefs and Practices among Bulgaria’s Roma)
The “Invisible” Islam (Syncretic Religious Beliefs and Practices among Bulgaria’s Roma)

Summary/Abstract: This article focuses on the heterodox religious practices among the Roma population in Bulgaria, which still exist today but became “invisible“ about the mainstream society due to the institutional marginalization of Alevi Islam in the country. Because there are no large and institutionally recognized Alevi communities, as well as due to the lack of multicultural education, in Bulgaria such practices are received with derision and labelled as “Gypsy (i.e. low quality) thing“. As a matter of fact, it is a domestic syncretic fusion between Alevi Islam and some local folklore Christian practices.

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