Edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund
Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region
In Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have been part of the religious and ethnic mosaic of this region. The book has a broad and multi-disciplinary scope and covers the early settlements in Lithuania and Poland, the later immigrations to Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as the most recent establishments in Sweden and Germany. The authors, who hail from and are specialists on these areas, demonstrate that in several respects the Tatar Muslims have become well-integrated here.
Contributors are: Toomas Abiline, Tamara Bairasauskaite, Renat Bekkin, Sebastian Cwiklinski, Harry Halén, Tuomas Martikainen, Agata Nalborczyk, Egdunas Racius, Ringo Ringvee, Valters Scerbinskis, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.
Ingvar Svanberg is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University. He has contributed to many publications on Muslims, including the reader Islam in the West, which he co-edited with David Westerlund (Routledge, 2011).
David Westerlund is Professor in the Study of Religions at Södertörn University in Stockholm. His recent publications include Religion, Politics and Nation-Building in Post-Communist Countries, which he co-edited with Greg Simons (Ashgate, 2015).
