Faith in displacement: vernacular stability and the reinvention of Yazidi religion in exile
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2025.2579223" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2025.2579223</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2025.2579223" target="_blank" >10.1080/0048721X.2025.2579223</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Faith in displacement: vernacular stability and the reinvention of Yazidi religion in exile
Original language description
The Yazidi religious tradition, once anchored in rigid caste boundaries, a central sacred geography, and hereditary authority, is undergoing a profound transformation in the context of exile. This article introduces the concept of vernacular stability to describe the ways in which religious meaning is sustained not through institutional permanence, but through reinterpretation, embodied memory, and everyday ritual practice. Drawing on examples from post-genocide Yazidi communities in Iraq and the diaspora, the study shows how sacred authority is reassembled beyond Lalish, how formerly inflexible caste rules become sites of negotiation, and how trauma shapes moral boundaries and intergenerational transmission. Far from signalling decline, these shifts reveal a form of resilience that rests not on immutability, but on the capacity to translate faith into altered social and spatial conditions. Yazidi religion emerges here not as a static system, but as a field of contested meanings, sustained by improvisation, repetition, and memory.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Religion
ISSN
0048-721X
e-ISSN
0048-721X
Volume of the periodical
neuvedeno
Issue of the periodical within the volume
neuvedeno
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
1-20
UT code for WoS article
001609192500001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105020599496