APOSTASY FROM ISLAM: WHAT DOES IT MEAN HERE AND NOW?

Slaviša Raković

Authors

Slaviša Raković

Keywords:

apostasy, Islam, former Yugoslavia, Bosniaks, nationalism, patriarchal gender regime

Abstract

This paper is an attempt of contextualization and glocalization of the issue of performative apostasy from the doctrinal Islam in the (former) SerboCroatian speaking areas after the ethno-national homogenization and the return of religious institutions in the public sphere- all in relation to the findings by Simon Cottee presented in his book: The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam. The main claim in the text is that apostasy from Islam in the territories of former Yugoslavia is seen as irtidad (Arabic for regress often equal to treason) within a specific familistic, patriarchal socio-political regime of conservative social strata which have given in to a literalistic religious assimilation intto a non- folkloric Islam.

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