TY  - BOOK
AU  - Montgomery,David W.
TI  - Practicing Islam: knowledge, experience, and social navigation in Kyrgyzstan 
T2  - Central Eurasia in context series
SN  - 9780822981978
AV  - BP63 
U1  - 297.095843 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Pittsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Religious life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; An anthropology of knowledge and life "in the field" -- Learning everyday (Islam) -- "Muslim by birth, atheist by belief": the social organization of knowledge -- "Our ancestors also live here": the corpus of knowledge -- "Listen and watch": the medium of knowledge -- Framing politics, morality, and practice -- Social navigation as knowing enacted/in action -- Overview of interlocutors -- Methodology and description of the field
N2  - David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in both the individual and the community. To Montgomery, religious practice and lived experience combine to create an ideological space that is shaped by events, opportunities, and potentialities that form the context from which knowing emerges. This acquired knowledge further frames social navigation and political negotiation.Through his years of on-the-ground research, Montgomery assembles both an anthropology of knowledge and an anthropology of Islam, demonstrating how individuals make sense of and draw meanings from their environments. He reveals subtle individual interpretations of the religion and how people seek to define themselves and their lives as "good" within their communities and under Islam.Based on numerous in-depth interviews, bolstered by extensive survey and data collection, Montgomery offers the most thorough English-language study to date of Islam in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. His work provides a broad view into the cognitive processes of Central Asian populations that will serve students, researchers, and policymakers alike
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