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Women, Islam, and identity : public life in private spaces in Uzbekistan / Svetlana Peshkova.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gender and globalizationPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780815653059
  • 0815653050
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.48/69709587 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1735.27 .P47 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Self-formation and social change -- Doing our part: the social and the individual -- Nonliberatory discourses on women's rights -- Pedagogy and storytelling -- Changing lives and "national Islam" -- From a unique Uzbek nation to a unique individual -- Is it over? Not a conclusion.
Summary: "This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim women leaders have staked out a vibrant space in which they counsel and assist the women in their specific religious needs. Peshkova finds that otinchalar's religious leadership filters into other areas of society, producing social changes beyond the ritual realm and challenging stereotypical definitions of what it means to be a Muslim woman. Weaving together the stories of individuals' daily lives with her own journey to and from post-Soviet Central Asia, Peshkova provides a rich analysis of identity formation in Uzbekistan. She presents readers with a nuanced portrait of religion and social change that starts with an individual informed but not determined by the sociohistoric context of the region."--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-335) and index.

Online resource; title from e-book title screen (Project Muse platform, viewed November 20, 2014).

"This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim women leaders have staked out a vibrant space in which they counsel and assist the women in their specific religious needs. Peshkova finds that otinchalar's religious leadership filters into other areas of society, producing social changes beyond the ritual realm and challenging stereotypical definitions of what it means to be a Muslim woman. Weaving together the stories of individuals' daily lives with her own journey to and from post-Soviet Central Asia, Peshkova provides a rich analysis of identity formation in Uzbekistan. She presents readers with a nuanced portrait of religion and social change that starts with an individual informed but not determined by the sociohistoric context of the region."--Provided by publisher

Self-formation and social change -- Doing our part: the social and the individual -- Nonliberatory discourses on women's rights -- Pedagogy and storytelling -- Changing lives and "national Islam" -- From a unique Uzbek nation to a unique individual -- Is it over? Not a conclusion.

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