David Montgomery

Practicing Islam (eBook, ePUB)

Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. Through his years of on-the-ground research, he assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. This book offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981978
• Artikelnr.: 47465339

Autorenporträt

David W. Montgomery is research professor in the Department of Government and Politics and the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland and director of program development for CEDARCommunities Engaging with Difference and Religion. His books include Practicing Islam: Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan; Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World; and Everyday Life in the Balkans.