KAZAKHSTAN

Religion and Society in Central Eurasia:
New Sources for the Religious History of Kazakhstan

Ottobre 29-30, 2009
presso la Fondazione Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia

 

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CONTENTS

 

 

11    From Vicenza to Astana
Tiziano Treu and Giorgio Cracco           English version   Versione  Italiana

17   Kazakhstan: a Historical-Religious Approach
Cesare Alzati

21    The Central Eurasian Steppes as a Multireligious Space in History
Gian Luca Bonora, Niccolò Pianciola and Paolo Sartori

Part I. The Prehistoric and Ancient Eras

35   The First Nomadic Steppe Tribes and Their Religion in the Light of the Archaeological Evidence
Gian Luca Bonora

52   Shamanism and the People of the Steppes in Antiquity and the High Middle Ages
Fausto Bosi

67   The Earliest Archaeological Evidence of Christianity in Kazakhstan
Chiara  Zuanni

81   Color Plates

Part II. The Expansion of Islam and Buddhism

99   Islamization and Early Sufism in Central Eurasia during the Pre-Mongolian Period (Eighth to Thirteenth Century)
Jean-Marc Deom

113   Isiam in the Syr Darya Region from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Century

ASHIRBEK MUMINOV

125   The Spread of Islam in Kazakhstan from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Meruert Abuseitova

137   Lamaist Buddhism in Kazakhstan (Seventeenth to Mid Nineteenth Century)
Irina V. Yerofeyeva

153   Color Plates

 

Part III. The Tsarist and Soviet Periods

179   Exploration of the Kazakh Steppes and Semirech'e in Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev

199   The Role of the Oath in Kazakh Legai Procedure (Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries)
Zhanar Jampeissova

211    Who Can Employ Offerings to Shrines? A Steppe Mullah against Descent Groups
Paolo Sartori

222   The Empires Suspect Agents: Cossack Old Believers in the Kazakh Steppe, 1867-1917
Karlygash Bizhigitova

237   Orthodoxy in the Kazakh Territories (1850-1943)
Niccolò Pianciola

255   Between Migration and Deportation: Protestants and Catholics in the Kazakh Steppe (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)
Niccolò Pianciola and Tamara P. Volkova

273   Judaism in the Kazakh Steppes (Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries)
Tamara P. Volkova

283   Afterword
Andrea Graziosi

289   Index of Names

297   Index of Places