RT Article
T1 Building Pluralism in Central Asia: Outlining an Experiential Approach in Kyrgyzstan
JF The review of faith & international affairs
VO 19
IS 4
SP 98
OP 110
A1 Montgomery, David W.
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1840481099
AB Pluralism recognizes diversity and aims to facilitate peaceful coexistence across a variety of interests and convictions. Across Central Asia, states have become increasingly authoritarian and in turn less favorable to implementing political and legal structures commonly seen as necessary for pluralism. The question about the potential for pluralism in Central Asia, however, is different from one on how to build pluralism. In this article, I argue that despite the less-than-sanguine prospects for pluralism to emerge across the region, pluralism can be built through programming that engages difference and creates new solidarities around shared experience, without the insistence on shared meaning.
K1 Central Asia
K1 Kyrgyzstan
K1 covenantal pluralism
K1 Difference
K1 Experience
K1 Pluralism
K1 Religion
DO 10.1080/15570274.2021.1989823