Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov1; 1 The University of Manchester, UK
Discussion
In the multicultural and multilingual Ottoman empire the disruptions have not always come as a result of the disagreements or competition between the representatives of different religions or ethnic groups but have also been a part of internal divergence processes within a particular group. The paper studies didactic sermons of the Orthodox Christian preachers aimed at the Christian communities in the Balkans in the eighteenth century in order to examine the ways the heterodoxy was construed as a multi-layered disruptive phenomenon entangling both gender and non-Christian beliefs. The presentation explores the linguo-cultural modalities through which the preachers express it, and the modes through which they attempt to build more cohesive structures within their own communities.
