Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan - The Morality of Experience

Informationen zum Autor Johan Rasanayagam is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Dr Rasanayagam's works have been published in numerous journals! including the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Central Asian Survey. Klappentext An ethnographic study set in Uzbekistan which shows how Muslims practise and celebrate their religion despite a repressive government. Zusammenfassung The Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This book is about how Muslims in this part of the world negotiate their religious practices despite the restraints of a stifling authoritarian regime. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: towards an anthropology of moral reasoning; 1. Islam and sociality in Pakhtabad and Samarkand; 2. The new Soviet (Central Asian) person and the colonization of consciousness; 3. Good and bad Islam after the Soviet Union: the instrumentalization of tradition; 4. The practical hegemony of state discourse; 5. The moral sources of experience: social, supernatural and material worlds; 6. Moral reasoning through the experience of illness; 7. Debating Islam through the spirits; 8. Experience, intelligibility and tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Johan Rasanayagam, Johan (University of Aberdeen) Rasanayagam, Rasanayagam Johan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.11.2010
• EAN: 9781107000292
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00029-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural anthropology, Middle Eastern history, Political Control & Freedoms, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Social discrimination and social justice