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Author Rasanayagam, Johan, 1964-

Title Islam in post-Soviet Uzbekistan : the morality of experience / Johan Rasanayagam
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2010
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Description 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge books online
Contents INTRODUCTION: Towards an Anthropology of Moral Reasoning ---- ONE: Islam and Sociality in Pakhtabad and Samarkand --- TWO: The New Soviet (Central Asian) Person and the Colonisation of Consciousness --- THREE: Good and Bad Islam after the Soviet Union: The Instrumentalisation of Tradition --- FOUR: The Practical Hegemony of State Discourse --- FIVE: The Moral Sources of Experience: Social, Supernatural, and Material Worlds --- SIX: Moral Reasoning through the Experience of Illness --- SEVEN: Debating Islam through the Spirits --- EIGHT: Experience, Intelligibility, and Tradition
Summary In recent years, the Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This book, which is based on the author's intimate acquaintance with the region and several years of ethnographic research, is about how Muslims in this part of the world negotiate their religious practices despite the restraints of a stifling authoritarian regime. Fascinatingly, the book also shows how the restrictive atmosphere has actually helped shape the moral context of peoples' lives, and how understandings of what it means to be a Muslim emerge creatively out of lived experience. -- Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Islam -- Uzbekistan -- History
Islam and state -- Uzbekistan
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
Islam.
Islam and state.
Uzbekistan.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511925818
0511925816
9781107000292
1107000297
9780511930843
0511930844
9780511719950
0511719957
9780511933547
0511933541