Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan

The Morality of Experience

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvJohan Rasanayagam,Johan (University of Aberdeen) Rasanayagam

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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 people's lives, and how understandings of what it means to be a Muslim emerge creatively out of lived experience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-11-29
Mått152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781107411623

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Diskriminering och rättvisa inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Islam inom Filosofi och religion

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.

'For the novice to the field the book serves as a good introduction to the meanings of Islam in the area; for those well-versed in the field of Central Asian studies it is very important reading, not least because of its engagement with theory as well as the broader literature on the wider Islamic world (still rare in the field of Central Asian studies). I find [Rasanayagam's] attempt to bring the material into dialogue with current theoretical discussions on morality within anthropology particularly illuminating … Scholars and students interested in the anthropology of morality would find his discussions of experience as a moral source most interesting, and scholars interested in religion, politics and ideology would find lots of inspiration in the book as well.' Maria Louw, Contemporary Islam