Being Muslim in central Asia : : practices, politics, and identities / / edited by Marlene Laruelle.
This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a “societal shaper” – a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldr...
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| Superior document: | Eurasian Studies Library, Volume 9 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eurasian studies library ;
Volume 9. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle
- 1 How ‘Muslim’ are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry / Galina Yemelianova
- 2 Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys / Barbara Junisbai , Azamat Junisbai and Baurzhan Zhussupov
- 3 Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan / Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer
- 4 The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization / Tim Epkenhans
- 5 Power, “Original” Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan / Aurélie Biard
- 6 Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia / Alexander Wolters
- 7 Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna’s Social Media / Wendell Schwab
- 8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector / Manja Stephan-Emmrich
- 9 Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia / Rano Turaeva
- 10 The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek / Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova
- 11 Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society / Shahnoza Nozimova
- 12 Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women’s Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan / Marintha Miles
- Bibliography / Marlene Laruelle
- Index / Marlene Laruelle.