title: Religion and Nation-Building in Crimea 1
abstract: This chapter deals with Crimean Tatars, a deported community who returned to Crimea at the end of the Cold War and sought to establish an autonomous national identity. It also deals with the key actors and the main processes of nation-building before and after the Tatar repatriation in Crimea. The chapter discusses the religious revival and the subsequent paradoxical effects of Islam upon Crimean Tatar identity-building. The Crimean Tatar leadership's response was to introduce the notion of Tata