MOSQUES IN POST-SOVIET KAZAKHSTAN: DISCOURSE INTERPRETATION AND REGULATORY PRACTICES
Kikimbayev M. Medeuova K. Ramazanova A.
2021CA and C Press AB
Central Asia and the Caucasus
2021#22Issue 4126 - 139 pp.
T he authors have analyzed the dyna-mics of the growth of number of mosques built by religious associa-tions in post-Soviet Kazakhstan and noted a transition from their unregulated and chaotic construction (proliferation) to their precise association with specific maddhabs, and their construction norms conceptualized by religious institutions represented by the Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of Kazakhstan (DUMK). The types of cultic facilities and the actors are discussed and ranked according to the type of their involvement and part-nership. We should note that the participa-tion of various actors adds weight to the status of mosques as important public fa-cilities. The authors have paid particular attention to the religious communities’ revised registration realized under the Law of the RK on Religious Activities and Religious Asso-ciations of 2011, which optimized the religious space, consolidated the positions of traditional Islam and, hence, standardized the rules related to mosque construction.
DUMK , Mosque , Post-Soviet realities , Public space , Re-appropriation , Re-Islamization , Traditional Islam , “mosque diplomacy , ” religious communities
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Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Department of Philosophy, L.N. Gumilyov, Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Department of Philosophy, L.N. Gumilyov, Eurasian National University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
Eurasian National University
Department of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
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