Vol.2, No 6/2 1999 pp. 277 - 283
UDC: 316.723:297
RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOCULTURAL DIMENSIONS
OF THE KAZALBASHI COMMUNITY IN BULGARIA
Vesselin Bosakov
Institute of Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
Abstract. In the paper the Kazalbash community is regarded to be
an ethnoreligous community pertaining to the Shiite division of islam.
Its native language is Turkish. The religious cread represents a message
addressed to the community. The basic tenets of the doctrine are analyzed
and compared to the Sunni confession. The organization of the Kazalbash
religious community (the jam) is briefly described. The discussion is based
on the conception that consciousness (in the case religious consciousness)
is an ontolocical component of social reality. Both the holiday and the
everyday dimension of Kazalbash social life are closely connected to their
religious doctrine. For this reason the religious and sociocultural dimensions
of the community interpenetrate to form a syncretic whole. What is more,
the holiday and everyday life provide the specific characteristics of the
culture. Hence the definition of the characteristics of the Kazalbash community's
sociocultural model is possible only in the context of the knowledge of
the principles and presciptions of the religious doctrine that determines
the structure of this community.
Key words: The Kazalbash community, Shiite division of Islam
RELIGIOZNE I SOCIOKULTURNE DIMENZIJE KAZALBAŠKE
ZAJEDNICE U BUGARSKOJ
U radu se kazalbaška zajednica razmatra kao etnoreligozna zajednica koja
ispoveda islam u njegovoj šiitskoj verziji. Maternji jezik je turski. Religiozno
učenje i poslanje usmereno je na samu zajednicu. Analiziraju se osnove
učenja u upoređenju sa sunitskim. Nakratko se opisuje i organizacija kazalbaške
religozne zajednice (džem). Diskusija se zasniva na shvatanju saznanja
(ovde religioznog saznanja) kao ontološke komponente socijalne stvarnosti.
I praznične i svakodnevne dimenzije kazalbaškog socijalnog života u otvorenoj
su vezi sa njihovom religijskom doktrinom.
Ključne reči: Kazalbaška zajednica, šiitska verzija islama
