Remaking Muslim Lives

The violent disintegration of Yugoslavia and the cultural and economic dispossession caused by the collapse of socialism continue to force Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to reconfigure their religious lives and societal values. David Henig draws on a decade of fieldwork to examine the historical, social, and emotional labor undertaken by people to live in an unfinished past--and how doing so shapes the present. In particular, Henig questions how contemporary religious imagination, experience, and practice infuse and interact with social forms like family and neighborhood and with the legacies of past ruptures and critical events. His observations and analysis go to the heart of how societal and historical entanglements shape, fracture, and reconfigure religious convictions and conduct. Provocative and laden with eyewitness detail, Remaking Muslim Lives offers a rare sustained look at what it means to be Muslim and live a Muslim life in contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dezintegrarea violenta a Iugoslaviei si deposedarea culturala si economica cauzata de prabusirea socialismului continua sa-i oblige pe musulmanii din Bosnia si Hertegovina sa isi reconfigureze vietile religioase si valorile societale. David Henig se bazeaza pe un deceniu de munca de teren pentru a examina munca istorica, sociala si emotionala intreprinsa de oameni pentru a trai intr-un trecut neterminat - si modul in care acest lucru modeleaza prezentul.