Essays about: "Religion in Central Asia"

Found 2 essays containing the words Religion in Central Asia.

1. 1. A History of Rule by Divine Law among Semitic Cultures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Karl Bjur; [2020]
   Keywords : History; Islam; Arabic; Judaism; Hammurabi; Akkadian; State; Divine law; Sharia; Halakha; Aksum; Ethiopia; Empire; Didascalia; Theocracy; Theonomocracy; Semitic; Israelite; Al-Māturīdī; Al-Māwardī; Religious History; Middle-east; Africa; Kitāb al-Tawḥīd; Māturīdīya; Rulership; Oriental; Despotism; Absolutism; Cultural Darwinism; Comparative oriental studies; Cross-cultural study; Orientalism; Large-scale History; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a comparative study of several widespread and canonical texts from the lowlands of the Middle East and North Africa, with regard to historically reoccurring interconnected traits of ideal state structure among cultures, where Semitic languages have been main languages of communication from the 18th century BC to the modern day. The study is of reoccurring ideals of state structure with defined limits and causes for its existence across several Semitic speaking cultures. READ MORE

3. 2. Teaching About Religion in a Post-Soviet State : An Examination of Textbooks in Kazakhstan's Upper Secondary School System

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Religionshistoria

   Author : Henrik Ohlsson; [2014]
   Keywords : Religion in Central Asia; official ideology; secular; post-secular; passive secularity; assertive secularity; separationism; accomodationism;

   Abstract : The search for new identity factors and shared values in the post-Soviet region has given rise to a process of reevaluation of the role of religion in society. Not least the Central Asian countries are struggling with these issues in their nation building processes. READ MORE