Showing posts with label dissertation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dissertation. Show all posts
British Library. "Ethos Beta: Electronic Theses Online Service." British Library, http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do.

A new service of the British Library; 250,000 plus theses may be searched and some of them can be immediately downloaded with a free subscription.  There are some works in the library on Central Asia and some of those contain discussions of Islam in the region.  It appears that the British Library is in the process of digitizing all of its theses and so more electronic versions should become available.  Descriptors: B, bibliographic, dissertation, website
Gullette, David. "Introduction: Religion and Ethnicity." In "Kinship, State, and 'Tribalism': The Genealogical Construction of the Kyrgyz Republic," 13-15. PhD diss., University of Cambridge, 2006, http://www.innerasiaresearch.org/Gullette-PhDThesis06.pdf.

This is a three page section on religion and ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan in a dissertation that is otherwise not about Islam.  It discusses the interrelationship between kinship, ethnicity, social practices, and religion and argues that religion has been an identity marker and is just now becoming a belief system in Kyrgyzstan.