Transforming Tajikistan : state-building and Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia /: state-building and Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hélène Thibault.
• Authors: Thibault, Hélène
• Contents: Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Transliteration; Acknowledgements; Introductionâ#x80;#x83;Religious Revival in Tajikistan; Contributions and Limitations; Organization of the Book; 1. A Neo-Institutionalist Ethnography of Religious Revival; Conducting Research in Tajikistan and in the Sughd Viloyat; Subjectivity and Positionality in Research; 2. The Soviet Secularization Project; Soviet Scientific-Materialism; Soviet Materialism: A Religion?; Secularization, Soviet-Style; Managing Religion: Constitutional Provisions and Laws. Institutions of RegulationThe Soviet Modernization Project: Views on Success and Failure; Accommodation in Context; 3. Tajikistan's Political Landscape in the Aftermath of the Civil War; Civil War; Postwar Tajikistan; Tightening Authoritarianism; The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan: A Slow but Steady Marginalization; The Other Islamic Opposition; 4. State Policies and Discourses in Independent Tajikistan; Laws Regulating Religion and Religious Practice; Institutions of Regulation; The Patriotic Muslim; The Hijab Issue; The Virtuous Tajik Woman; 5. Of Being Muslim in Tajikistan. Assessing ReligionThe Believers; The Disorder of Things; Contested Boundaries; Polygyny and Traditional Gender Roles; Conclusion; Islam in Tajikistan: National and International Influences; Notes; Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 267 pages), illustrations, map
• Subjects: 958.6086; Islam and politics -- Tajikistan; HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia; HISTORY -- Asia -- General; Islam and politics; Politics and government; Tajikistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Tajikistan; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786723123; 1786723123
• Related ISBNs: 178453921X; 9781784539214; 9781786733122
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-262) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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