'Pre-Islamic Survivals' in Muslim Central Asia
R. Charles Weller
Broschiertes Buch

'Pre-Islamic Survivals' in Muslim Central Asia

Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

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The book traces the conceptual lens of historical-cultural 'survivals' from the late 19th-century theories of E.B. Tylor, James Frazer, and others, in debate with monotheistic 'degenerationists' and Protestant anti-Catholic polemicists, back to its origins in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions as well as later more secularized forms in the German Enlightenment and Romanticist movements. These historical sources, particularly the 'dual faith' tradition of Russian Orthodoxy, significantly shaped both Tsarist and later Soviet ethnography of Muslim Central Asia, helping guide and justify thei...