Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans

@article{Doja2008InstrumentalBO,
  title={Instrumental Borders of Gender and Religious Conversion in the Balkans},
  author={Albert Doja},
  journal={Religion, State \& Society},
  year={2008},
  volume={36},
  pages={55 - 63}
}
  • A. Doja
  • Published 22 January 2008
  • Sociology
  • Religion, State & Society
Abstract In this paper I look at religious identifications and affiliations in the Balkans as instrumental political resources for ascertaining hierarchical relations among social groups and individuals, with extensive use of gendered metaphors, referring to different categories of people as either effeminate or truly manly, and actual women often used as a currency of exchange. 
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