What does it mean for a "people" to have a potential voice in a political environment of authoritarian repression? Here I look specifically at the cultural production and performance of improvisational poetry as a form of "folklore" within the context of retraditionalization in …
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This dissertation surveys Korean Baptist missionaries' work in Kazakhstan and recommends some effective strategies for twenty-first-century missions for Korean missionaries. The writer presents major emerging issues in world evangelization and explains the need for the study in …
Following the collapse of the Soviet system, clan and faction networking has gained considerable attention in Central Asia. This research project explores the extent to which social group identity, specifically clan identity, shapes people's political preferences leading them to…
The penetrated political system theory has been applied to small states and the Middle East region in order to explain the effects that global powers have had on these countries. Various scholars of the penetrated political system theory argued that this theory could not apply t…
As part of the INTAS funded CLIMAN project into Holocene climatic variability and the evolution of human settlement in the Aral Sea basin, fossil diatoms obtained from Chernyshov Bay in the Aral Sea have been examined in order to reconstruct conductivity and lake level change si…
This thesis looks at competing influences in Central Asia since 1991. It looks at all five Central Asian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, and identifies the three main powers with competing influences as Russia, Islam and America. It ai…
After the demise of the Soviet Union, six of the newly independent states were of Islamic background: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tadjikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan, Five of these six are in Central Asia, with Azerbaijan being in the Caucuses region. Specifically …
This dissertation employs qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the relationship between religion and sexual HIV risk among 1,342 male migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, employed in Baraholka Market, located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. …
This dissertation examines the diversity of Islamic literature in Kazakhstan and interpretations of that literature, focusing on bestselling Islamic books. I argue that the majority of Islamic publishing and book distribution in Kazakhstan is controlled by members of the piety m…