TY - BOOK AU - Ismayilov,Murad TI - The dialectics of post-Soviet modernity and the changing contours of Islamic discourse in Azerbaijan: toward a resacralization of public space T2 - Contemporary Central Asia: societies, politics, and cultures AV - BP63.A94 .I863 2018 U1 - 297.094754 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books KW - Islam and state KW - Azerbaijan KW - Islam KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Attitudes KW - Public opinion KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=5493579 ER -