A Place of One’s Own: Pilgrimage and the Reinterpretation of Culture in Russia’s Ural Region


 This article engages with the negotiation of Russian history and culture, focussing on concept tradition. Instead contesting tradition as it is used by state authorities, members Muslim minority in Russia tend to indicate claim their own distinct from a new national culture stressing Orthodox Christianity Slavic origins. By undertaking pilgrimage sacred sites south Perm Krai, believers Urals reconnect land help restore lived that has suffered Soviet repression which mostly ignored more recent nation-building strategies.