Teaching Islam at a home school: Muslim women and critical thinking in Uzbekistan

Svetlana Peshkova

Central Asian Survey, 2014, vol. 33, issue 1, 80-94

Abstract: In this article I describe and analyse non-institutionalized religious education among local women in Uzbekistan. I argue that while exhibiting vestiges of ‘traditional’ objectives, methods of teaching, and models of knowledge transmission, and incorporating elements of educational reforms advocated by the Central Asian reformers in the early 1900s, and of Soviet pedagogy, the dynamics of such education foster students' critical thinking. By enabling students to think critically about their lives and social environment, the non-institutionalized religious education does not have one predetermined outcome, but ensures social change that starts on an individual level, whereby a student can, but does not have to, engage politically with the state, which systematically intervenes in shaping its citizens' religious lives.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2014.889869

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