Julie McBrien

From Belonging to Belief (eBook, ePUB)

Modern Secularisms and the Construction of Religion in Kyrgyzstan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book 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. Julie McBrien explores belief and non-belief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. She shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites, and argues that religion is not always a matter of belief sometimes it is essentially about belonging. McBrien details the complex process of evolving religion in a region that has experienced both Soviet atheism and post-Soviet secularism, each of which has profoundly formed the way Muslims interpret and live Islam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822983057
• Artikelnr.: 52501121

Autorenporträt

Julie McBrien is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.