Social Revolution in Circassia: The Interdependence of Religion and the World-System [Çerkesya’da Sosyal Devrim: Dinin ve Dünya Sisteminin Birbirine Bağımlılığı]
Journal: Journal of Caucasian Studies
Year: 2019

This article examines the relationship between religion, geography, and social changes that took place in Circassia in the middle of the 17th century. The paper uses a philosophical approach to analyze the articulation of the economic, political, and ideological elements that connected the case of Circassia to the world-system theory. The Circassian social formation was a hybrid of the communal and tributary stages of human history. The social revolution in Circassia appears to be the result of