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SOCIO-CULTURAL
CHANGE, RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS |
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Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Abdulvahap TAŞTAN |
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Azerbaijan
experienced an important modernity process from 19th century during
Czarism and Soviet Union, and became an arena for secular world view
on the intellectual level in the frame of atheism. During this period,
religion continued its existence as a cultural phenomenon by being
abstracted from its ritual orientations. Religious and national values
especially merged in burying ceremonies and Newruz festivals, influenced
social and cultural life as a national tradition. Islam was conceived
as a symbol of the collective conscious of history and culture in
Azerbaijan and other Central Asian Turkic societies, and therefore,
it functioned as a cultural bond among them. The period after independency
from Soviet Union can be considered as the beginning of social and
cultural change. In this process, in the frame of achieved experiences,
religious revival has become as an important social phenomenon. |
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