THE POLITICS OF SECULARITY/RELIGIOSITY IN KAZAKHSTAN
Abstract
In Kazakhstan, the religious situation, with its steadily growing impact on social development, mentality, and lifestyle, is unfolding spontaneously. Expert discussions of religious influence and the degree of clericalization of secular society are multifaceted and highly contradictory. State politics and the state structure responsible for interaction with religious institutions are in a state of perpetual transformations, which adds turbulence to the situation and makes the implementation of different scenarios of changes in the religious (mainly Islamic) landscape possible. The state responds to the threat of radicalization of society using quasi-religious patterns, employing force, preventive educational efforts, and rehabilitation of certain groups within the republic’s population. Overall, the balance between secularity and religiosity requires a consistent and non-contradictory state policy.
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Here and elsewhere, we use information from a formalized questionnaire population poll carried out by the Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Studies at the Ministry of Education and Science in 2018 among 3,500 respondents using a national representative sampling. The survey considered the adult (18+) population of Kazakhstan across the most important social-demographic groups, including gender, age, ethnicity, education, social-professional status, income level, type of settlement, religiosity, etc. The polls were conducted as personal formalized interviews in the respondents’ flats “face to face” using a paper questionnaire (PAPI technology).
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