Islam in post-Soviet Uzbekistan : the morality of experience / Johan Rasanayagam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rasanayagam, Johan, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Uzbekistan--History.

Islam.

Islam and state--Uzbekistan.

Islam and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This 2011 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 people's lives, and how understandings of what it means to be a Muslim emerge creatively out of lived experience.

Contents:

Itroduction: towards an anthropology of moral reasoning

Islam and sociality in Pakhtabad and Samarkand

The new Soviet (Central Asian) person and the colonisation of consciousness

Good and bad Islam after the Soviet Union: the instrumentalisation of tradition

The practical hegemony of state discourse

The moral sources of experience: social, supernatural and material worlds

Moral reasoning through the experience of illness

Debating Islam through the spirits

Experience, intelligibility and tradition.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-273) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-21977-9

0-511-85336-X

1-282-93180-6

9786612931802

0-511-93218-9

0-511-93084-4

0-511-92831-9

0-511-93354-1

0-511-71995-7

0-511-92581-6

OCLC:

693761267