"Beyond Mosque, Church, and State is a useful resource for scholars engaged in research on nationalism, identity, memory and culture in post-Ottoman Balkan states, as it invites creating space for wider engagements with nations and nationalism outside more traditional and top-down understandings of these phenomena. An edited volume like Beyond Mosque, Church, and State can provide a wealth of varied knowledge across an extended timespan – from the fall of Constantinople to the most recent parliamentary elections in Bulgaria – that shows how valuable and persistent alternative (and accordingly under-researched) conceptualizations of the nation and the state are in times of social upheaval."
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