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Kulagin A.A. Ethnic and religious identification of Druze community

Abstract: This article provides a cultural and ethnographic description of the Druze ethnic group. The author analyzes the demographic aspects, the present distribution of the Druze in the Middle East, cultural and religious grounds of Druzes’ ethnic identity, grounds of social cohesion between community members.


Keywords:

cultural studies, the Druze, ethnic and cultural identity, ethno-confessional group, religion, the Druze religion, the Middle East, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan


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