Shaping an Islamic identity: religion, Islamism, and the state in Central Asia.

From: Sociology of Religion | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Gunn, T. Jeremy | Copyright information

The vast majority of Central Asians consider Islam to be part of their social identity--as it has been for centuries. Yet seventy years of official Soviet atheism decimated Islamic institutions of learning, leaving both imams and the population largely unfamiliar with traditional Islamic teachings. There is now a struggle within the five formerly Soviet republics of Central Asia between Islamists and governments to reconstruct an Islam and to capture the allegiance of the populace. Central ...

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