Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-262) and index.
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.
Assessing ReligionThe Believers; The Disorder of Things; Contested Boundaries; Polygyny and Traditional Gender Roles; Conclusion; Islam in Tajikistan: National and International Influences; Notes; Bibliography.
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.
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"Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away from Soviet government systems and responds to the rise of Chinese financial power alongside the continuing presence of Russian military might and instability in neighboring Afghanistan. This book demonstrates how the Soviet atheist legacy continues to influence current state structures, the regulation of religion, the formation of national identities, and the understanding of the place of religion in society. Helene Thibault focuses on the differences between secular nationhood in Tajikistan, and an increasingly popular and influential Muslim identity. Featuring extensive and original primary-source material, including 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Thibault demonstrates the profound and lasting influence of Soviet power structures and attitudes, and how secular and religious identities clash in a context of tightening authoritarianism."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Ingram Content Group
9781786723123
Transforming Tajikistan.
178453921X
Islam and politics-- Tajikistan.
HISTORY-- Asia-- Central Asia.
HISTORY-- Asia-- General.
Islam and politics.
Politics and government.
Tajikistan, Politics and government, 21st century.
Tadjikistan, Politique et gouvernement, 21e siècle.