The dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan : toward a resacralization of public space /
Ismayilov, Murad,
The dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan : toward a resacralization of public space / [electronic resource] Murad Ismayilov. - 1 online resource (195 pages). - Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hybrid intentionality and exogenous sources of the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan : geography, Soviet legacy, and the quest for Western recognition -- The complicity of the domestic populace, secular opposition, civil society, and the international community in reproducing the religious secular divide and the representation of Islam as a threat -- The contextual dialectics of elite attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan -- The dynamics of change : the bridging of the religious-secular divide and the normalization of Islamic discourse across Azerbaijan's social-political landscape -- Normalization of Islamic discourse and the future of Islam in Azerbaijan : quo vadis? -- A shared landscape of Islamism across the secularized Middle East.
This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the normalization of Islamic discourse, and elite attitudes toward Islam.
9781498568371 (e-book)
Islam and state--Azerbaijan.
Islam--Azerbaijan.
Elite (Social sciences)--Attitudes.--Azerbaijan
Islam--Public opinion.--Azerbaijan
Electronic books.
BP63.A94 / .I863 2018
297.094754
The dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan : toward a resacralization of public space / [electronic resource] Murad Ismayilov. - 1 online resource (195 pages). - Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hybrid intentionality and exogenous sources of the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan : geography, Soviet legacy, and the quest for Western recognition -- The complicity of the domestic populace, secular opposition, civil society, and the international community in reproducing the religious secular divide and the representation of Islam as a threat -- The contextual dialectics of elite attitudes to Islam in Azerbaijan -- The dynamics of change : the bridging of the religious-secular divide and the normalization of Islamic discourse across Azerbaijan's social-political landscape -- Normalization of Islamic discourse and the future of Islam in Azerbaijan : quo vadis? -- A shared landscape of Islamism across the secularized Middle East.
This study examines the relationship between the Azerbaijani state and its society in the post-Soviet period. The author analyzes the growing cooperation between secular and religious sectors, the normalization of Islamic discourse, and elite attitudes toward Islam.
9781498568371 (e-book)
Islam and state--Azerbaijan.
Islam--Azerbaijan.
Elite (Social sciences)--Attitudes.--Azerbaijan
Islam--Public opinion.--Azerbaijan
Electronic books.
BP63.A94 / .I863 2018
297.094754