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Desecularization Post-Soviet Style: Delimitations of New Religious Public Space in Central Asia
with John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University Modernization theory has run into some snags regarding religion in Central Asia. The Post-Reformation modernity in Europe brought convictions and institutions aimed at ensuring religious life free of state intervention and withdrawal of religion from public space. Post-Soviet modernity in Central Asia has seen the opposite trend — convictions and institutions premised… Continue reading Desecularization Post-Soviet Style: Delimitations of New Religious Public Space in Central Asia
Religion and Identity in Eurasia
This seminar will explore how religion articulates itself both through localized identities, based on community belonging, ethnic or national references, and with globalized identities (the Ummah, some transnational brotherhoods, proselytizing groups). At both the individual and collective levels, the traditional ways of expressing religion are anchored in local processes and understood as code of social… Continue reading Religion and Identity in Eurasia
Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan
12:30 Light Lunch 12:45-1:30pm Keynote Speaker Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University) Using a Wide Lens to Assess the Narrow Risk of Radical Islam in Tajikistan 1:30-3:30pm Panel I. Tajikistan Today: Security, Economy and Media Chair: Sebastien Peyrouse (CAP, GWU) Muzaffar Olimov (Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan) Afghan factor and the Threat of Islamic Radicalization: fear… Continue reading Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan
