Akaidar Kurmanbek
Biographic Data
| ID | 6934021 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akaidar Kurmanbek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akaidar |
| FAMILY NAME | Kurmanbek |
| SIGNATURE | KURMANBEK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9274-731X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Baptist and Pentecostal churches in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
This article examines the place of Baptist and Pentecostal churches in post-Soviet Kazakhstan through the linked questions of religious freedom, cultural translation and social cohesion. The central argument is that Protestant communities in Kazakhstan should not be read only through the binaries of ‘missionary expansion’ and ‘state control’. Rather, they occupy an ambivalent position: they are minority actors whose charitable work, local congreg…
Regulated pluralism and lived Christianity in Kazakhstan
This article analyses Christianity in Kazakhstan as a transcultural and theologically meaningful social formation rather than as a mere demographic residue of Soviet history or a simple outcome of missionary expansion. The argument is that Christianity in Kazakhstan is produced at the intersection of three layers: legal regulation, ethno-linguistic negotiation, and lived religious practice. To make this argument, the study develops a comparative …
Sacred sound and spiritual formation
This conceptual article examines sacred sound as a medium of spiritual formation and religious identity in Kazakh Islamic culture. It treats dhikr, devotional singing, poetic recitation and culturally embedded vocal practices as forms of religious remembrance, not simply as aesthetic performance. Drawing on Qur'anic language, sound studies, Sufi reflection on samāʿ and Central Asian scholarship, the article develops a cultural-theological reading…
Regional security collaboration between Central Asia and China contemporary challenges and future prospects
Under China's One Belt, One Road initiative, Central Asia plays a pivotal role in linking Europe and East Asia, with Beijing initially prioritizing economic interests. However, there is still no comprehensive assessment of how China's growing security role in the region reshapes existing security arrangements and what forms future cooperation might take. This study addresses that problem by examining the specific dimensions of China-Central Asia …
Religious - Ethical Values in Kazakh Culture in the Digital Age
Public consciousness today oscillates between secular rationalisation, accelerating digital economies, and a renewed desire for spiritual and ethical depth. Mythologemes and symbols mediate religious knowing, they also stabilise ethical horizons when informational noise rises. Building on Ernst Cassirer’s theory of symbolic forms, where myth and language are foundational cultural expressions, and Martin Heidegger’s view of language as world formi…
The roots of the cultural deviation of Sufism in the ancient Turkic nomadic culture
Introduction This study investigates the integration of Sufism into medieval Turkic nomadic culture, analyzing how Sufi rituals, saintly authority, and scholarly networks reshaped social structures and collective identity on the Eurasian steppe. Methods We assembled a multidisciplinary corpus, including Divan‐i Ḥikmet verses, 12th-14th‐century hagiographies, waqf endowments, archaeological surveys, and secondary literature, and applied hermeneuti…
Spiritual and Theological Aspects of Personal Development in the Heritage of Al-Farabi
This article is devoted to the theological and philosophical aspect of personal development on the path of virtue in the educational heritage of Abu Nasr Al-Farabi who was a prominent Islamic philosopher who lived from 872 to 950 CE. The research is grounded in the context of Islamic philosophy and theology, where the concept of a virtuous personality is seen as not only an ethical but also a spiritual ideal aimed at harmony with the divine order…
The role of cognitive identification and poetic consciousness of Kazakh youth in the formation of spiritual unity and religious education
In the era of globalization, the spiritual and cultural self consciousness of Kazakh youth is undergoing profound transformations. The notions of cognitive identification and poetic consciousness have become decisive frameworks through which young people reinterpret their spiritual identity. The present study aims to analyse the cultural–cognitive identification of Kazakh youth and its interaction with national and global cultural codes. Using co…
Sufi Motives in Ancient Turkic Nomadic Culture
The cultural and anthropological concept of Turkic Sufism is rooted in ideals of spiritual perfection, the absolute, and the archetype of the "perfect human". This concept, though widely influential, remains insufficiently explored from sociological perspectives. This article expands on Sufi motives in ancient Turkic nomadic culture by incorporating sociological theories of collective rituals, authority, and cultural capital. Drawing on Émile Dur…
Digital Post Islamism and the Cognitive Transformation of Islamic Belief
The rapid expansion of networked communication has shifted the ways religious communities produce, distribute and consume knowledge. Scholars have argued that digital technologies generate a public sphere in which new voices and forms of authority proliferate. In Muslim societies these changes intersect with a broader historical trend dubbed post Islamism: a transition away from the ideological project of political Islam toward more individualist…
Christian Communities
Religious freedom is a universal human right and a cornerstone of modern secular governance. Yet the way in which this freedom is guaranteed and experienced differs significantly across countries. This article compares the legal status, lived experience and theological responses of Christian communities in two very different settings – Finland, a predominantly Lutheran country in northern Europe, and Kazakhstan, a Muslim majority republic in Cent…
Terrorism as a Unity of Destructive Ideology and its influence on Theology
This article delves into the intricate interplay between terrorism, its ideological underpinnings, and their intersection with theology within a national context. Employing the principles of activity, historicism, system-structural, and comparative methods, this research scrutinizes the essence of terrorism as a unified entity shaped by its ideological roots and theological influences. The primary findings highlight terrorism as a complex, system…
Sufi Motives in Ancient Turkic Nomadic Culture
The cultural and anthropological concept of Turkic Sufism is rooted in ideals of spiritual perfection, the absolute, and the archetype of the "perfect human". This concept, though widely influential, remains insufficiently explored from sociological perspectives. This article expands on Sufi motives in ancient Turkic nomadic culture by incorporating sociological theories of collective rituals, authority, and cultural capital. Drawing on Émile Dur…
Terrorism as a Unity of Destructive Ideology and its influence on Theology
This article delves into the intricate interplay between terrorism, its ideological underpinnings, and their intersection with theology within a national context. Employing the principles of activity, historicism, system-structural, and comparative methods, this research scrutinizes the essence of terrorism as a unified entity shaped by its ideological roots and theological influences. The primary findings highlight terrorism as a complex, system…
Terrorism as a Unity of Destructive Ideology and its influence on Theology
This article delves into the intricate interplay between terrorism, its ideological underpinnings, and their intersection with theology within a national context. Employing the principles of activity, historicism, system-structural, and comparative methods, this research scrutinizes the essence of terrorism as a unified entity shaped by its ideological roots and theological influences. The primary findings highlight terrorism as a complex, system…
The roots of the cultural deviation of Sufism in the ancient Turkic nomadic culture
Introduction This study investigates the integration of Sufism into medieval Turkic nomadic culture, analyzing how Sufi rituals, saintly authority, and scholarly networks reshaped social structures and collective identity on the Eurasian steppe. Methods We assembled a multidisciplinary corpus, including Divan‐i Ḥikmet verses, 12th-14th‐century hagiographies, waqf endowments, archaeological surveys, and secondary literature, and applied hermeneuti…
Spiritual and Theological Aspects of Personal Development in the Heritage of Al-Farabi
This article is devoted to the theological and philosophical aspect of personal development on the path of virtue in the educational heritage of Abu Nasr Al-Farabi who was a prominent Islamic philosopher who lived from 872 to 950 CE. The research is grounded in the context of Islamic philosophy and theology, where the concept of a virtuous personality is seen as not only an ethical but also a spiritual ideal aimed at harmony with the divine order…
The role of cognitive identification and poetic consciousness of Kazakh youth in the formation of spiritual unity and religious education
In the era of globalization, the spiritual and cultural self consciousness of Kazakh youth is undergoing profound transformations. The notions of cognitive identification and poetic consciousness have become decisive frameworks through which young people reinterpret their spiritual identity. The present study aims to analyse the cultural–cognitive identification of Kazakh youth and its interaction with national and global cultural codes. Using co…
Sufi Motives in Ancient Turkic Nomadic Culture
The cultural and anthropological concept of Turkic Sufism is rooted in ideals of spiritual perfection, the absolute, and the archetype of the "perfect human". This concept, though widely influential, remains insufficiently explored from sociological perspectives. This article expands on Sufi motives in ancient Turkic nomadic culture by incorporating sociological theories of collective rituals, authority, and cultural capital. Drawing on Émile Dur…
Digital Post Islamism and the Cognitive Transformation of Islamic Belief
The rapid expansion of networked communication has shifted the ways religious communities produce, distribute and consume knowledge. Scholars have argued that digital technologies generate a public sphere in which new voices and forms of authority proliferate. In Muslim societies these changes intersect with a broader historical trend dubbed post Islamism: a transition away from the ideological project of political Islam toward more individualist…
Christian Communities
Religious freedom is a universal human right and a cornerstone of modern secular governance. Yet the way in which this freedom is guaranteed and experienced differs significantly across countries. This article compares the legal status, lived experience and theological responses of Christian communities in two very different settings – Finland, a predominantly Lutheran country in northern Europe, and Kazakhstan, a Muslim majority republic in Cent…
Baptist and Pentecostal churches in post-Soviet Kazakhstan
This article examines the place of Baptist and Pentecostal churches in post-Soviet Kazakhstan through the linked questions of religious freedom, cultural translation and social cohesion. The central argument is that Protestant communities in Kazakhstan should not be read only through the binaries of ‘missionary expansion’ and ‘state control’. Rather, they occupy an ambivalent position: they are minority actors whose charitable work, local congreg…
Regulated pluralism and lived Christianity in Kazakhstan
This article analyses Christianity in Kazakhstan as a transcultural and theologically meaningful social formation rather than as a mere demographic residue of Soviet history or a simple outcome of missionary expansion. The argument is that Christianity in Kazakhstan is produced at the intersection of three layers: legal regulation, ethno-linguistic negotiation, and lived religious practice. To make this argument, the study develops a comparative …
Sacred sound and spiritual formation
This conceptual article examines sacred sound as a medium of spiritual formation and religious identity in Kazakh Islamic culture. It treats dhikr, devotional singing, poetic recitation and culturally embedded vocal practices as forms of religious remembrance, not simply as aesthetic performance. Drawing on Qur'anic language, sound studies, Sufi reflection on samāʿ and Central Asian scholarship, the article develops a cultural-theological reading…
Regional security collaboration between Central Asia and China contemporary challenges and future prospects
Under China's One Belt, One Road initiative, Central Asia plays a pivotal role in linking Europe and East Asia, with Beijing initially prioritizing economic interests. However, there is still no comprehensive assessment of how China's growing security role in the region reshapes existing security arrangements and what forms future cooperation might take. This study addresses that problem by examining the specific dimensions of China-Central Asia …
Religious - Ethical Values in Kazakh Culture in the Digital Age
Public consciousness today oscillates between secular rationalisation, accelerating digital economies, and a renewed desire for spiritual and ethical depth. Mythologemes and symbols mediate religious knowing, they also stabilise ethical horizons when informational noise rises. Building on Ernst Cassirer’s theory of symbolic forms, where myth and language are foundational cultural expressions, and Martin Heidegger’s view of language as world formi…
Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Islam (4 works) · Consciousness (3 works) · Kazakh (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Christianity (2 works) · Educational Practices and Challenges (2 works)