Listening to the wedding speaker: discussing religion and culture in Southern Kyrgyzstan

McBrien, Julie

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“…Moreover, newly pious Muslims started to transform life-cycle rituals into "religiously pure" events. For example, by abolishing "traditional" wedding parties, prohibiting serving alcohol, reinforcing gender segregation, and inviting wedding speakers, these newly pious Muslims challenged the formerly agreed upon notions of what was Islamic and what was not (McBrien, 2006). Specifically, they disconnected being Muslim from being Kyrgyz, stressing the supranational character of Islam rather than its relation to culture and national identity.…”

Section: Post-soviet Challengesmentioning

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Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

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Quijada

2015

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Over the past decade, the concept of "diversity" has gained a leading place in academic thought, business practice, politics and public policy across the world. However, local conditions and meanings of "diversity" are highly dissimilar and changing. For these reasons, deeper and more comparative understandings of pertinent concepts, processes and phenomena are in great demand. This series will examine multiple forms and configurations of diversity; how these have been conceived, imagined and represented; how they have been or could be regulated or governed; how different processes of inter-ethnic or inter-religious encounter unfold; how conflicts arise and how political solutions are negotiated and practiced; and what truly convivial societies might actually look like. By comparatively examining a range of conditions, processes and cases revealing the contemporary meanings and dynamics of "diversity," this series will be a key resource for students and professional social scientists. It will represent a landmark within a field that has become, and will continue to be, one of the foremost topics of global concern throughout the 21st century. Reflecting this multi-disciplinary field, the series will include works from Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Law, Geography and Religious Studies. The series publishes standard monographs, edited collections and Palgrave Pivot titles, for shorter works that are between 25,000 and 30,000 words.

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Section: Post-soviet Challengesmentioning

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Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

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2015

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“…14 In the Central Asian context, as in many others, the word 'Wahhabi' is used as a synonym for an Islamic extremist. Interestingly, the history of the use of this word in such a manner goes back at least to the 1970s (McBrien, 2006b Copyright of Critique of Anthropology is the property of Sage Publications, Ltd. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use.…”

Section: Opium and The Peoplementioning

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Turning Marx on his Head

McBrien

Pelkmans

2008

Critique of Anthropology

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■ Christian and Muslim religious movements have made significant inroads into post-Soviet Kyrgyzstani society, and have been seen as a threat by the secular establishment. In this article we discuss the defence mechanisms that are locally employed to ward off the danger that these 'new' religious movements represent. Our focus on secular responses not only fills a gap in the available research (which has focused on religious renewal but largely ignored the 'secular' majority), but also provides new perspectives on how to view the postsocialist religious landscape. By scrutinizing secular responses we show that what is at stake is not so much atheist ideology but secular understandings of religion that were (inadvertently) promoted by Soviet rule. As such this article shows the curious effect of Soviet legacies on contemporary notions of religion and culture.We are atheists. Yes, we are Muslims but let me explain. We are all Muslim people -Kazaks, Kyrgyz, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks, Tartars. We were born Muslims. That's it. (Nazgul, Kyrgyz woman, 55 years old) Atheist Muslims, an odd combination, but for anyone familiar with Central Asia it is a completely 'natural' thing. These days, very few in Kyrgyzstan would likely go so far as to call themselves atheists, but many would generally agree with Nazgul's sentiments. On another occasion, Nazgul elaborated on her first comment saying: Look, we are atheists, but of course we all believe in God. We always did. I do. Now we are free. We build mosques, people pray, that's good. But those, those who wear scarves like this [tracing the shape of a hijab around her face with her fingers] 1 and keep their women at home, they are bad. They are Wahhabis.In her explanation, Nazgul drew a line between acceptable Muslim behaviour -the practitioners of which she labelled atheists -and the unacceptable, radical behaviour of those she called Wahhabis. Nazgul's bifurcation of Muslimness into 'good, moderate' and 'bad, extreme' is a trope that has

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“…Pine [2002], Bloch [2010]). In part it reflects new forms of engagement with scripturalist Islam and explorations of gendered Muslim orthopraxy in which spatial segregation plays an integral part (McBrien 2006, Montgomery 2007, pp. 146 -175, Peshkova 2009).…”

Section: Gender Place and So'xchilikmentioning

confidence: 99%

Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration

Reeves

2011

Central Asian Survey

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Listening to the wedding speaker: discussing religion and culture in Southern Kyrgyzstan

Cited by 34 publications

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Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

Atheist Secularism and its Discontents

Turning Marx on his Head

Staying put? Towards a relational politics of mobility at a time of migration

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