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aeer-178	Ghodsee, Kristen	Symphonic Secularism: Eastern Orthodoxy, Ethnic Identity and Religious Freedoms in Contemporary Bulgaria	2009	26	.pdf	application/pdf	12103	624	48	In order to bring cohesion and legitimacy to the rapidly expanding Bulgarian state in a world dominated by Christianity, Boris I officially adopted the religion in the late ninth century in a calculated diplomatic move to consolidate his power by getting recognition from the Patriarch in Constantinople and the Pope in Rome (Gyuzuzelev 2006; Koev and Bakalov 2006). The article attempts to untangle the meaning of secularism, pluralism, religious freedom and tolerance from the point of view of my informants, with a particular focus on the way that individuals deploy popular understandings of Bulgarian history to justify their personal comprehension of how far the state can go in regulating religiosity in every day life.	cache/aeer-178.pdf	txt/aeer-178.txt