Greg Simons is Associate Professor with the IRES at Uppsala University, Sweden; at Department of Communication Sciences and a Leading Researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University, Riga, Latvia; a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

• Introduction: the image of Islam in Russia Greg Simons1. Islamic practice and state policies towards religion in post-Soviet RussiaBulat Akhmetkarimov2. Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in RussiaKaarina Aitamurto3. Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinov’s ‘Russian Islam’ Michael Kemper4. Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox ChurchGulnaz Sibgatullina5. Constructing the image of Islam in contemporary Russian print media: the language strategies and politics of misrepresentation Sofya Ragozina 6. Islamic masculinities in action: the construction of masculinity in Russian visual culture about the Chechen wars Erik Vlaeminck7. Crafting mosque-state relations through community-service work: the case of Yardam mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan Liliya Karimova

Greg Simons is Associate Professor with the IRES at Uppsala University, Sweden; at Department of Communication Sciences and a Leading Researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University, Riga, Latvia; a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

• Introduction: the image of Islam in Russia Greg Simons1. Islamic practice and state policies towards religion in post-Soviet RussiaBulat Akhmetkarimov2. Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in RussiaKaarina Aitamurto3. Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinov’s ‘Russian Islam’ Michael Kemper4. Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox ChurchGulnaz Sibgatullina5. Constructing the image of Islam in contemporary Russian print media: the language strategies and politics of misrepresentation Sofya Ragozina 6. Islamic masculinities in action: the construction of masculinity in Russian visual culture about the Chechen wars Erik Vlaeminck7. Crafting mosque-state relations through community-service work: the case of Yardam mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan Liliya Karimova

Greg Simons is Associate Professor with the IRES at Uppsala University, Sweden; at Department of Communication Sciences and a Leading Researcher at the Business Technology Institute at Turiba University, Riga, Latvia; a leading researcher at the Humanitarian Institute of Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

• Introduction: the image of Islam in Russia Greg Simons1. Islamic practice and state policies towards religion in post-Soviet RussiaBulat Akhmetkarimov2. Discussions about indigenous, national and transnational Islam in RussiaKaarina Aitamurto3. Religious political technology: Damir Mukhetdinov’s ‘Russian Islam’ Michael Kemper4. Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox ChurchGulnaz Sibgatullina5. Constructing the image of Islam in contemporary Russian print media: the language strategies and politics of misrepresentation Sofya Ragozina 6. Islamic masculinities in action: the construction of masculinity in Russian visual culture about the Chechen wars Erik Vlaeminck7. Crafting mosque-state relations through community-service work: the case of Yardam mosque in Kazan, Tatarstan Liliya Karimova