عنوان

Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan

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انگلیسی

Toward a Sacred Topography of Central Asia: Shrines, Pilgrimage, and Gender in Kyrgyzstan

[Thesis]

Jennifer Rose Webster

Young, Glennys J.; Walker, Joel T.

University of Washington

2015

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Committee members: Campbell, Elena

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-67951-9

Ph.D.

History

University of Washington

2015

This dissertation explores the complex relationship that people have with shrines in southern Kyrgyzstan from the 1950s to the present. In particular, I look at how people, especially women, identify themselves as Muslims and how their religious beliefs and practices associated with shrines and pilgrimage have evolved in response to political, social, and cultural influences in the dynamic region of Central Asia. During both the Soviet and post- Soviet eras, there has been ongoing change in how different members of Kyrgyz society have sought to demarcate Islam. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines ethnographic and historic methodologies, I examine these contested negotiations and definitions of religious identities. The integration of a diverse range of sources-interviews, observations, administrative reports, newspaper articles, travel accounts, legends, and photographs-brings to light both individual and group perceptions of the central role of shrines to Islam as it is practiced in Kyrgyzstan.

Middle Eastern history; Womens studies; Islamic Studies

Social sciences;Central asia;Islam;Kyrgyz;Pilgrimage;Shrine;Women

Lee, Hanny

Young, Glennys J.; Walker, Joel T.

History

University of Washington

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