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From Belonging to Belief

From Belonging to Belief

Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan
From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away ...
Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia

Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia

During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events throughout the Islamic world in the prior two decades, which had negative effects on both social and political development. Twenty years later, we are ...

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