Introduction: the image of Islam in Russia
Greg Simons
1. Islamic practice and state policies towards religion in post-Soviet Russia
Bulat Akhmetkarimov
2. Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in Russia
Kaarina Aitamurto
3. Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinov’s ‘Russian Islam’
Michael Kemper
4. Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox Church
Gulnaz Sibgatullina
5. Constructing the image of Islam in contemporary Russian print media: the language strategies and politics of misrepresentation
Sofya Ragozina
6. Islamic masculinities in action: the construction of masculinity in Russian visual culture about the Chechen wars
Erik Vlaeminck
7. Crafting mosque-state relations through community-service work: the case of Yardam mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan
Liliya Karimova
Biography
Greg Simons is Associate Professor with the IRES at Uppsala University, Sweden; at Department of Communication Sciences and a Leading Researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University, Riga, Latvia; a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
