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...
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Series: | Eurasian studies library,
VOLUME 9 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Marlene Laruelle
- Part 1. What does it mean to be a Muslim in today's Central Asia?
- .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 Ro'i and Alon Wainer
- Part 2. Islam, politics, and the state
- 4. The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan : episodes of Islamic activism, postconflict, accomodation, and political marginalization / Tim Epkenhans
- 5. Power, "original" Islam, and the reactivation of a religious utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan / Aurelie Biard
- 6. Islamic finance and the state in Central Asia / Alexander Wolters
- Part 3. Islam in evolving societies and identities
- 7. Visual culture and Islam in Kazaghstan : 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
- Part 4. Female attire as a public depate. 10. The war of billboards : hijab, secularism, and public space in Bishkek / Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova
- 11. Hijab in 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.