Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Douban
The Morality of Experience
Johan Rasanayagam
overview
This book is an ethnographic account of Islam in Uzbekistan and the
processes of reasoning through which individuals develop an
understanding of what it means to be a Muslim. It describes state
efforts to define and control religious expression, the ruthless
suppression of anything considered 'deviant', and the atmosphere of
fear this generates amongst ordinary Muslims. The book is also a
discussion of the nature of morality and moral reasoning. It argues
that the moral is not only defined by self-conscious deliberation, but
is also inherent in lived experience itself.
contents
Chapters:
- Introduction: Towards an anthropology of moral reasoning
- Islam and sociality in Pakhtabad and Samarkand
- The New Soviet (Central Asian) Person and the colonisation of consciousness
- Good and bad Islam after the Soviet Union: The instrumentalisation
of tradition
- The practical hegemony of state discourse
- The moral sources of experience: Social, supernatural and material worlds
- Moral reasoning through the experience of illness
- Debating Islam through the spirits
- Experience, intelligibility and tradition