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…
Continue reading Desecularization Post-Soviet Style: Delimitations of New Religious Public Space in Central Asia
with Mariya Y. Omelicheva, University of Kansas How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity?…
Continue reading Islam as a Power Resource: Instrumentalization of Religion in Central Asia
with Catherine Cosman, Senior Policy Analyst- U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Central Asian governments use state-controlled Islam to build national identity, but also fear Islam’s influence and understand that Islam… Continue reading Central Asia’s Struggle with Religion
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… Continue reading Religion and Identity in Eurasia
In partnership with the British Council's Bridging Voices Project 2014/15 The purpose of the dialogue is to undertake a debate about the relationship between Islam and secularism with respect to…
Continue reading Islam, Secularism and Security in Central Asia and Beyond
with Vincent Artman, University of Kansas Since independence, Kyrgyzstan, like the other Central Asian states, has been confronted with the challenge of articulating a viable national identity.Drawing upon five months of fieldwork,…
Continue reading Negotiating Identity in Kyrgyzstan: Nationality, Islam, and the Meaning of Tradition
with Sarah Kendzior, Al Jazeera English and Noah Tucker, Courage Services and Registan.net The speakers will examine the transnational effort by ethnic Uzbeks to document the June 2010 violence and mobilize international support, first for intervention… Continue reading Digital Memory and a ‘Massacre’: Post-Soviet Uzbek Identity in the Age of Social Media
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:…
Continue reading Tracking Factors of Change in Tajikistan
with Eileen O’Connor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs and Noah Tucker, Registan.net Key points: • Perhaps surprisingly, ISIS appears to be weak in its…
Continue reading Syria Calling: Migration, Mobilization and the Transformation of the Central Asian Jihad
This seminar will explore state-sponsored secularism in the Eurasian continent, and how the authorities use the concept of the separation of state and religion to consolidate authoritarian policies. It looks…
Continue reading Religion, State and Secularism in Eurasia… and Beyond
with Ulan Bigozhin, Indiana University Many scholars have argued that shrine veneration and respect for sacred lineages are essential parts of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia because of their long history…
Continue reading Shrine, State and Sacred Lineage in Modern Kazakhstan
Eurasia is often a forgotten space on the radar of the public opinion and the policy community looking at the Islamic world. However, Eurasia offers diversity of Islamic traditions, including…
Continue reading Islam in Eurasia
A Roundtable Discussion with Catherine Cosman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Dillorom Abdulloeva, Human Rights Lawyer and Co-Founder and President of Tashabbus Mirakmal Niyazmatov, Lawyer and Co-Founder of Tashabbus Central Asian governments…
Continue reading Regulating Religion in Central Asia
with Emmanuel Karagiannis, King's College, London Dr. Emmanuel Karagiannis is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence Studies, King’s College London. He was educated in Great Britain (London South…
Continue reading Old’ and ‘New’ Political Islam
Noah Tucker (Registan.net, and CAP associate) Sarah Kendzior (Al Jazeera and CAP associate) Courtney Ranson (Media research consultant) The Internet and social media are slowly beginning to revolutionize the Islamic… Continue reading Politics, Religion, and Conflict Online in Central Asia
The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan. Toward a Resacralization of Public Space MURAD ISMAYILOV Azerbaijan’s independence came after seven decades of militant… Continue reading The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan. Toward a Resacralization of Public Space
Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane? EDITED BY DANIEL L. BURGHART AND THERESA SABONIS-HELF – CONTRIBUTIONS BY LAURA ADAMS; SVETLANA ANCKER; DANIEL L. BURGHART; YUHAO DU; STACIE L.… Continue reading Central Asia in the Era of Sovereignty. The Return of Tamerlane?
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By CAP CAP Paper 199, January 2018 On February 15, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program organized a workshop on “‘Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia” in the framework… Continue reading Culture and Islam in Late Soviet Central Asia
By CAP CAP Paper 198, January 2018 On January 29, 2018, GW’s Central Asia Program organized a workshop on “‘Bourgeois’ Islam, Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia” in the… Continue reading “Bourgeois” Islam, Prosperity Theology and Ethics in Muslim Eurasia
By CAP The latest report of the Almaty club (a Central Asia Policy Group) on Islam and the State in Central Asia analyzes evolution in legislation, the secularization of Islam,… Continue reading Islam and the State in Central Asia – a Friedrich Ebert Foundation Report
