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The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan - Toward a Resacralization of Public Space (Hardcover)
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The Dialectics of Post-Soviet Modernity and the Changing Contours of Islamic Discourse in Azerbaijan - Toward a Resacralization of Public Space (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
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Azerbaijan's independence came after seven decades of militant
atheism of Soviet modernization project and emerged into staunch
secularism of Western modernity, two factors that, on a par with
the country's precarious neighborhood, promised a sustained
indigenous effort towards the desacralization of the country's
political space and the associated exclusion of religion from
politics, a modern blueprint that the Azerbaijani state and its
society have stood united to diligently follow over the cause of
the country's independent existence. Yet the specific dynamics
facing the country in the third decade of independence and the
changing contours of its international engagements have gradually
been working to set the country free from the stifling grips of
Western-style modernity and lay the groundwork for quintessentially
and esoterically Azerbaijani pathway of statehood to follow, one
combining the nation's historical embeddedness in an Islamic milieu
with its century-old practical experience of modern policy making.
This book offers a detailed account of the dynamics behind the
religious-secular divide in Azerbaijan over the past two decades of
independence and the conditions underlying the ongoing process of
normalization of Islamic discourse and the rising cooperation
across the country's secular-religious political landscape and
looks into some future dynamics this transformation is set to
unleash. It begins with an outline of hybrid intentionality behind
the elite's manifold attitudes to Islam, with particular focus on
the strategy of separation between religion and politics in which
those attitudes have found expression. It then proceeds to show the
complicity of civil society and the broader populace, as well as
the international community and the country's Islamic stratum
itself, in the reproduction of the narrative of Islamic danger and
the resultant religious-secular divide in post-Soviet Azerbaijan.
The study then continues with an account of a number of dialectical
tensions inherent in policy outcomes to which the hybrid nature of
elite intentionality has given rise. It then follows on to discuss
key factors contributing to the ongoing normalization of Islam
across the public realm and the gradual bridging of the
religious-secular divide amidst the ongoing state repression. The
volume concludes with a comparative insight into some common
features and conditioning factors behind the dynamics underlying
the religious-secular nexus in Azerbaijan and across the broader
region of the Middle East. It also offers an insight into some
future potentialities that the current dynamics have laid bare.
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