{"title":"An Uneven Revival: Gendered Ethno-Regional Intersections of Religiousness in Kyrgyzstan","authors":"Victor Agadjanian","doi":"10.1080/10758216.2021.1974889","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Post-Soviet religious dynamics have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but their complexities remain poorly understood. Ethnic and gender intersections of religious identity and behavior are particularly understudied. This study examines these complexities and intersections using data of two rounds of a nationally representative survey from Kyrgyzstan, a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation. The multivariable analyses of subjective religious salience and religious practice produced both expected and unexpected gendered variations by religion, ethnicity, and region, as well as instructive temporal trends in these variations. The findings are interpreted through the prism of broader societal transformations in Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere in post-Communist Central Eurasia.","PeriodicalId":46824,"journal":{"name":"Problems of Post-Communism","volume":"70 1","pages":"317 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Problems of Post-Communism","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2021.1974889","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Post-Soviet religious dynamics have attracted considerable scholarly attention, but their complexities remain poorly understood. Ethnic and gender intersections of religious identity and behavior are particularly understudied. This study examines these complexities and intersections using data of two rounds of a nationally representative survey from Kyrgyzstan, a multi-religious and multi-ethnic nation. The multivariable analyses of subjective religious salience and religious practice produced both expected and unexpected gendered variations by religion, ethnicity, and region, as well as instructive temporal trends in these variations. The findings are interpreted through the prism of broader societal transformations in Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere in post-Communist Central Eurasia.
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The post-communist countries are the most rapidly changing societies of Europe and Asia. For insight into this twenty-first century revolution, there is no better source than Problems of Post-Communism. Emphasis is placed on timely research covering current economic, political, security, and international developments and trends in Russia and China, Central Europe and Central Asia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Clarity and readability make the articles fully accessible to researchers, policy makers, and students alike.