Islam in the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2020 in Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2021-17-4-131-148
Abstract
The article is a monitoring of the main events concerning the Muslim community of the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2020 based on content analysis of text materials from government reports, press releases, websites and social media pages of Islamic organizations. The pandemic that began at the end of 2019 and the lockdown introduced in Russia demanded that Islamic communities adapt to new conditions. The danger of the spread of COVID-19 has reduced the internal confl ict in the Islamic environment and the public’s attention to the problems of radicalism. The drop in mosques attendance was off set by the development and use of digital resources in religious activities. At the same time, limited contacts, reduced offl ine events and meetings contributed to strengthening the new course of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Bashkortostan towards decentralization and regionalisation. The activities of the Central Spiritual Administration of Russia, located in Ufa, remained without change on a national scale.
About the Author
Z. R. Habibullina
Institute for Ethnological Studies
Russian Federation
Competing Interests:
Russian Federation
Zilya R. KHABIBULLINA, D. Sci. (Hist.), senior research fellow of the Laboratory of Religious Studies of the R. G. Kuzeev Institute for Ethnological Studies — Subdivision of the Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
6, K. Marx Str., Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, 450077
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Habibullina Z.R. Islam in the Republic of Bashkortostan in 2020 in Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Islam in the modern world. 2021;17(4):131-148. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2021-17-4-131-148
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