Benjamin Gatling
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 707225 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Benjamin Gatling |
| PRENOMES | Benjamin |
| SOBRENOME | Gatling |
| ASSINATURA | GATLING B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1394-082X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ambivalent heritage
This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres of social life: leisure, education, life-cycle rites and religiosity. Hisor’s flexibility allows it to materialize Tajikistan’s governing ideology as one local project of modernity. This article discusses three contexts in which visitors experience His…
There Isn't Belief, Just Believing
Belief as a term in folklore scholarship encompasses a range of competing concepts. This article posits a number of problems with belief's standard usage: beliefs are reified and abstracted from social action; beliefs are systematized and explanatory of behavior; and beliefs are rendered as universal, cross-cultural features of social life. This article argues that reconceptualizing belief carries with it a decolonial justice imperative, and folk…
Sufis, Shrines, and the State in Tajikistan
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Islam and Cultural Heritage on Tajik Television
For many members of the Tajik governing elite, Muslim piety remains problematic—a stubborn, socially regressive holdover of anti-modern Tajiks—and Muslim leaders are often thought of merely as anachronistic cultural survivals. This paper interrogates the depiction of Muslim exemplars as they appear on Tajik state television by comparing a 2009 documentary about the life of Imomi Abūḣanifa, the eponymous founder of the Ḣanafī school of jurispruden…
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan
The Guide after Rumi
This article interrogates discourses on the nature of the Islamic revival in Central Asia by ethnographically examining notions of “tradition” and traditionality in the performance of Sufi ritual in contemporary Tajikistan. It discusses the social work of ritual in constructing and maintaining Sufi tradition in one Tajik Sufi brotherhood and uses this case study to consider the contours of religious revivalism and “newfound” Islamic religiosity i…
There Isn't Belief, Just Believing
Belief as a term in folklore scholarship encompasses a range of competing concepts. This article posits a number of problems with belief's standard usage: beliefs are reified and abstracted from social action; beliefs are systematized and explanatory of behavior; and beliefs are rendered as universal, cross-cultural features of social life. This article argues that reconceptualizing belief carries with it a decolonial justice imperative, and folk…
Islam and Cultural Heritage on Tajik Television
For many members of the Tajik governing elite, Muslim piety remains problematic—a stubborn, socially regressive holdover of anti-modern Tajiks—and Muslim leaders are often thought of merely as anachronistic cultural survivals. This paper interrogates the depiction of Muslim exemplars as they appear on Tajik state television by comparing a 2009 documentary about the life of Imomi Abūḣanifa, the eponymous founder of the Ḣanafī school of jurispruden…
The Guide after Rumi
This article interrogates discourses on the nature of the Islamic revival in Central Asia by ethnographically examining notions of “tradition” and traditionality in the performance of Sufi ritual in contemporary Tajikistan. It discusses the social work of ritual in constructing and maintaining Sufi tradition in one Tajik Sufi brotherhood and uses this case study to consider the contours of religious revivalism and “newfound” Islamic religiosity i…
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan
Sufis, Shrines, and the State in Tajikistan
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Islam and Cultural Heritage on Tajik Television
For many members of the Tajik governing elite, Muslim piety remains problematic—a stubborn, socially regressive holdover of anti-modern Tajiks—and Muslim leaders are often thought of merely as anachronistic cultural survivals. This paper interrogates the depiction of Muslim exemplars as they appear on Tajik state television by comparing a 2009 documentary about the life of Imomi Abūḣanifa, the eponymous founder of the Ḣanafī school of jurispruden…
There Isn't Belief, Just Believing
Belief as a term in folklore scholarship encompasses a range of competing concepts. This article posits a number of problems with belief's standard usage: beliefs are reified and abstracted from social action; beliefs are systematized and explanatory of behavior; and beliefs are rendered as universal, cross-cultural features of social life. This article argues that reconceptualizing belief carries with it a decolonial justice imperative, and folk…
Ambivalent heritage
This article considers the social and symbolic work of Hisor as a site of Tajikistan’s cultural heritage. Hisor carries with it an array of meanings and represents a convergence of multiple spheres of social life: leisure, education, life-cycle rites and religiosity. Hisor’s flexibility allows it to materialize Tajikistan’s governing ideology as one local project of modernity. This article discusses three contexts in which visitors experience His…
History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Ancient history (3 obras) · Islamic Studies and History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Soviet and Russian History (3 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (2 obras) · History (2 obras)