Religious Revival And Secularism In Post Soviet Azerbaijan

Author : Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110536461

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The book explores the complex world of Islam from the perspective of its adherents and activists in Azerbaijan. Baku, the most secular Muslim capital city, is a battlefield for the minds and souls of „ethnic Muslims.” Visiting pirs was till now the typical expression of religiosity among Azerbaijani Muslims. Sunni-Shia division was blurred. Nowadays, Shia and Sunni Muslim movements propose new distinctive identities. Foreign and local preachers took advantage of liberal religious policies of the 1990s to promote their ideas. Salafis stress the „pristine” Islam and the idea of universalism, while Shias underline rationality in their faith tradition. Turkish model of Islam is more inclusive towards local customs. Sufism, although not as powerful as before, also finds a committed audience. Finally, independent charismatic local leaders gain supporters. The book investigates how this pluralism affects both religious groups and believers. Competitive environment requires effective strategies and flexibility. In this process, the traditional dominance of Shiism is challenged by Sunni movements. Shiism, however, is not giving up and adapts its concepts and practices to contemporary contexts.

Author : Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110534634

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Religious Revival and Secularism in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan by Dobroslawa Wiktor-Mach Pdf

The book explores the complex world of Islam from the perspective of its adherents and activists in Azerbaijan. Baku, the most secular Muslim capital city, is a battlefield for the minds and souls of „ethnic Muslims.” Visiting pirs was till now the typical expression of religiosity among Azerbaijani Muslims. Sunni-Shia division was blurred. Nowadays, Shia and Sunni Muslim movements propose new distinctive identities. Foreign and local preachers took advantage of liberal religious policies of the 1990s to promote their ideas. Salafis stress the „pristine” Islam and the idea of universalism, while Shias underline rationality in their faith tradition. Turkish model of Islam is more inclusive towards local customs. Sufism, although not as powerful as before, also finds a committed audience. Finally, independent charismatic local leaders gain supporters. The book investigates how this pluralism affects both religious groups and believers. Competitive environment requires effective strategies and flexibility. In this process, the traditional dominance of Shiism is challenged by Sunni movements. Shiism, however, is not giving up and adapts its concepts and practices to contemporary contexts.

Author : Toby Matthiesen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198806554

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The Caliph and the Imam by Toby Matthiesen Pdf

The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The majority argued that the new leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite. Others believed only members of Muhammad's family could lead. This dispute over whoshould guide Muslims, the appointed Caliph or the bloodline Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to thepresent day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islams two main branches, particularly after the Muslim Empires embraced sectarian identity. It reveals how colonial rule institutionalised divisions between Sunnism and Shiism both on the Indian subcontinent and in the greater Middle East, giving rise to pan-Islamic resistance and Sunni and Shii revivalism. It then focuseson the fall-out from the 1979 revolution in Iran and the US-led military intervention in Iraq. As Matthiesen shows, however, though Sunnism and Shiism have had a long and antagonistic history, mostMuslims have led lives characterised by confessional ambiguity and peaceful co-existence. Tensions arise when sectarian identity becomes linked to politics. Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam will become the standard text for readers looking for a deeper understanding of contemporary sectarian conflict and its historical roots.

Author : Shin Yasuda,Razaq Raj,Kevin Griffin
Publisher : CABI
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786392343

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Religious Tourism in Asia by Shin Yasuda,Razaq Raj,Kevin Griffin Pdf

The Asia-Pacific region is considered the world's religious core, with the greatest number of pilgrims and travellers to religious events for both international and domestic tourism. It is estimated that there are approximately 600 million national and international religious and spiritual voyages in the world, of which over half take place in Asia. This book focuses on tourism and sacred sites in Asia. Contemporary case studies of religious and pilgrimage activities provide key learning points and present practical examples from this 'hub' of pilgrimage destinations. They explore ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations and new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities. It will be of interest to researchers within religious, cultural, heritage and Asian tourism. Key features include: - An Asian perspective on a growing area of tourism. - Case studies from across the continent. - Full-colour images of pilgrimage sites and key destinations bring the topic to life.

Author : Alexander Agadjanian,Ansgar Jödicke,Evert van der Zweerde
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317691570

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Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus by Alexander Agadjanian,Ansgar Jödicke,Evert van der Zweerde Pdf

This book explores developments in the three major societies of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – focusing especially on religion, historical traditions, national consciousness, and political culture, and on how these factors interact. It outlines how, despite close geographical interlacement, common historical memories and inherited structures, the three countries have deep differences; and it discusses how development in all three nations has differed significantly from the countries’ declared commitments to democratic orientation and European norms and values. The book also considers how external factors and international relations continue to impact on the three countries.

Author : Christian Davenport,Hank Johnston,Carol McClurg Mueller
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816644254

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Repression and Mobilization by Christian Davenport,Hank Johnston,Carol McClurg Mueller Pdf

Introduction: repression and mobilization : insights from political science and sociology / Christian Davenport -- Protest mobilization, protest repression, and their interaction / Clark McPhail and John D. McCarthy -- Precarious regimes and matchup problems in the explanation of repressive policy / Vince Boudreau -- The dictator's dilemma / Ronald A. Francisco -- When activists ask for trouble : state-dissident interactions and the New Left cycle of resistance in the United States and Japan / Gilda Zwerman and Patricia Steinhoff -- Talking the walk : speech acts and resistance in authoritarian regimes / Hank Johnston -- Soft repression : ridicule, stigma, and silencing in gender-based movements / Myra Marx Ferree -- Repression and the public sphere : discursive opportunities for repression against the extreme right in Germany in the 1990s / Ruud Koopmans -- On the quantification of horror : notes from the field / Patrick Ball -- Repression, mobilization, and explanation / Charles Tilly -- How to organize your mechanisms : research programs, stylized facts, and historical narratives / Mark Lichbach.

Author : Svante E. Cornell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781317476214

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Azerbaijan Since Independence by Svante E. Cornell Pdf

Azerbaijan, a small post-Soviet republic located on the western shore of the Caspian Sea, has outsized importance becaus of its strategic location at the corssroads of Europe and Asia, its oil resources, and

Author : Alexandre A. Bennigsen,S. Enders Wimbush
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1980-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226042367

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Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union by Alexandre A. Bennigsen,S. Enders Wimbush Pdf

In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine—as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev—was the concept of "proletarian nations," as opposed to the traditional notion of a working class. With such ideological innovations, Sultan Galiev and his contemporaries were able to reconcile Marxist nationalisms and Islam and devise an "Eastern strategy" whereby the national revolution was to be spread. The authors show that the ideas of Muslim national communism persist in the land of their birth and have spread to such developing societies as China, Algeria, and Indonesia. This doctrine is an important factor in the ideological split and increasing tensions between industrial and nonindustrial nations, East and West, and now North and South, which grip the world communist movement.

Author : Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781785337833

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Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces by Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite Pdf

Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.

Author : Tornike Metreveli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000283273

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Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition by Tornike Metreveli Pdf

This book discusses in detail how Orthodox Christianity was involved in and influenced political transition in Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia after the collapse of communism. Based on original research, including extensive interviews with clergy and parishioners as well as historical, legal and policy analysis, the book argues that the nature of the involvement of churches in post-communist politics depended on whether the interests of the church (for example, in education, the legal system or economic activity) were accommodated or threatened: if accommodated, churches confined themselves to the sacred domain; if threatened they engaged in daily politics. If churches competed with each other for organizational interests, they evoked the support of nationalism while remaining within the religious domain.

Author : Hélène Thibault
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788319867

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Transforming Tajikistan by Hélène Thibault Pdf

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. Hélène 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.

Author : Sabrina Mervin,Rainer Brunner,Jean-François Legrain,Joseph Alagha,Reidar Visser,Thomas Pierret,Roel Meijer,Joas Wagemakers,Stéphane A. Dudoignon,Farian Sabahi,Mariam Abou Zahab,Bayram Balci,Altay Goyushov,Brecht De Smet
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849042178

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The Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships by Sabrina Mervin,Rainer Brunner,Jean-François Legrain,Joseph Alagha,Reidar Visser,Thomas Pierret,Roel Meijer,Joas Wagemakers,Stéphane A. Dudoignon,Farian Sabahi,Mariam Abou Zahab,Bayram Balci,Altay Goyushov,Brecht De Smet Pdf

Sheds light on the political, sociological and ideological processes that are affecting the dynamics of Sunni-Shia relations

Author : Mohammed E. Ahrari,James Beal
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788134920

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The New Great Game in Muslim Central Asia by Mohammed E. Ahrari,James Beal Pdf

Author : Mark Hill QC,Norman Doe,RH Helmholz,John Witte, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000071559

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Christianity and Criminal Law by Mark Hill QC,Norman Doe,RH Helmholz,John Witte, Jr. Pdf

This collection, by leading legal scholars, judges and practitioners, together with theologians and church historians, presents historical, theological, philosophical and legal perspectives on Christianity and criminal law. Following a Preface by Lord Judge, formerly Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and an introductory chapter, the book is divided into four thematic sections. Part I addresses the historical contributions of Christianity to criminal law drawing on biblical sources, early church fathers and canonists, as far as the Enlightenment. Part II, titled Christianity and the principles of criminal law, compares crime and sin, examines concepts of mens rea and intention, and considers the virtue of due process within criminal justice. Part III looks at Christianity and criminal offences, considering their Christian origins and continuing relevance for several basic crimes that every legal system prohibits. Finally, in Part IV, the authors consider Christianity and the enforcement of criminal law, looking at defences, punishment and forgiveness. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and academics working in the areas of Law and Religion, Legal Philosophy and Theology.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0765613980

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The Legacy of History in Russia and the New States of Eurasia by Vladimir Shlapentokh Pdf

Shlapentokh undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-communist decade. Without overlooking its repressive character, he treats the USSR as a "normal" system that employed both socialist and nationalist ideologies for the purposes of technological and military modernization, preservation of empire, and expansion of its geopolitical power. Foregoing the projection of Western norms and assumptions, he seeks to achieve a clearer understanding of a civilization that has perplexed its critics and its champions alike.