TY - BOOK ID - 78490184 TI - Practicing Islam PY - 2016 SN - 0822981971 9780822981978 9780822964285 0822964287 PB - Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh Press DB - UniCat KW - Kyrgyzstan KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Jierjisi gong he guo KW - Jumhūrī-i Qirqīzistān KW - Kirghizia KW - Kirgisia KW - Kirgisien KW - Kirgisistan KW - Kirgizii︠a︡ KW - Kirgizistan KW - Kirgiziya KW - Kirgizstan KW - Kirugisu KW - Kirugisutan KW - Kuruguzu KW - Kuruguzusutan KW - Kyrghyzstan KW - Kyrgyz Republic KW - Kyrgyz Respublikasy KW - Kyrgyzskai︠a︡ Respublika KW - Kyrgyzskaya Respublika KW - Kyrgyzstan Respublikasy KW - Qirghiz Respublikasi KW - Qīrghīzistān KW - Qırğız Respublikası KW - Qırğızstan KW - Qirqīzistān KW - Republic of Kyrgyzstan KW - Respublika Kyrgyzstan KW - Кыргыз Республикасы KW - Кыргызстан KW - Кыргызская Республика KW - Киргизия KW - キルギス KW - キルギスタン KW - クルグズ KW - クルグズスタン KW - Kirghiz S.S.R. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78490184 AB - 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. ER -