LEADERS OF SUFI GROUPS IN KAZAKHSTAN SYNCRETISM AND TRANSFORMATION OF DOCTRINE
Temirbayev T. Temirbayeva A.
2023Ecozone, OAIMDD
European Journal of Science and Theology
2023#19Issue 211 - 23 pp.
Globalization and modernization contributed to the new views on religion, religiosity and spirituality. Religious leaders and religious communities are the largest and most organized civil institutions in the world. Religious leaders, more than any other representatives of civil society, have experience in establishing and working with international partnerships. Their experience is unique and can help global efforts to establish interreligious and interfaith dialogue, spiritual safety. Kazakh religious leaders are also contributing to the global effort. Sufi sheikhs are active actors in the Islamic renaissance. Sufism traditional for Kazakhstan was transformed and acquired the features of syncretic teachings. The reason is that modern leaders of Sufi groups receive foreign education, use multifactorial methods, psychoanalysis and various Western theories. The concepts of neo-Sufism and pseudo-Sufism take place in Kazakhstan. The self-identification of modern Sufis has been transformed; they create new religious constructs. In this regard, the article examines modern Sufi groups and social portraits of their leaders in Kazakhstan. The time frame is from independence to the present. The materials of the article are based on the theoretical basis of Sufism, both domestic and foreign studies, as well as on the information obtained by the authors in field research in Kazakhstan and Turkey. The used methods were depth interviews and participant observation.
leaders , modern , religious constructs , Sufi groups , transformation
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Egyptian University of Islamic Culture Nur-Mubarak, Department of Religious Studies, Al-Farabi, 73, Almaty, 050000, Kazakhstan
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Department of Philosophy, Masanchi, 39, Almaty, 050000, Kazakhstan
Egyptian University of Islamic Culture Nur-Mubarak
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
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