The Veneration and Visitation of the Graves of Saints in Soviet Central Asia. Insights from the Southern Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/68378009:_____/15:00473600

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Veneration and Visitation of the Graves of Saints in Soviet Central Asia. Insights from the Southern Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan

Original language description

The article contributes to the development of a deeper understanding of the changes in the practice of venerating and visiting of the graves of saints in Central Asia during the Soviet period. For this purpose, the article explores the archival reports and oral histories from the region of the southern Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan from the 1920s to the1980s. The article reveals that the broad ?categories often used to study the issues associated with the graves of saints and their visitation, such as the ideological conflict between communist politics and Islam, or the gap between normative and popular Islam, are largely insufficient when describing the practice during this period. The common ?schemes are blurred or interconnected - ?believers used the Soviet system to fulfil their goal of venerating the graves of saints, while the local authorities often helped to retain the practice, or eliminate it. For the most part, people learned how to combine both Soviet modernity and the vene

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AB - History

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-16520S" target="_blank" >GA14-16520S: Death, Graves, and the Hereafter in Islam: Muslim Perception of the Last Things in the Middle Ages and Today</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archiv orientální

ISSN

0044-8699

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

83

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

36

Pages from-to

501-536

UT code for WoS article

000369121100006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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