secularism
Latest Past Events
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
Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
with John Schoeberlein, Nazarbayev University The resurgence of religion in the post-Soviet space has been accompanied by heightened appeals to secularism as a social and political order. Most research on secularism in Eurasian contexts --and indeed, in general -- has focused on the top-down institutional construction of the secular order. Furthermore, scholarship on post-Soviet societies tends often to present social construction… Continue reading Bottom-up Secularism in the Top-down States of Eurasia
