Elliott, Bowen(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-10)
The next talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Elliott Bowen, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “COVID-19, the Media, ...
Griffin, Clare(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-09)
The second talk of our Fall 2020 speaker series will feature Dr. Clare Griffin, (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Nazarbayev University), who will discuss “Food, Cannibalism, ...
In the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, medical experts (virologists, epidemiologists, public health scholars, and statisticians alike) have become instrumental in suggesting policies to counteract the spread of coronavirus. Given ...
Amanbekov, Timur(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-01)
The use of the Singaporean model was adopted by the government of Kazakhstan in 1995 with the approval of the Second Constitution, partially due to the ideas of Nursultan Nazarbayev, who considered this model to be beneficial ...
Akhmetova, Danel(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2020-05-05)
In 1988, Murat Auezov, the editor-in-chief at Kazakhfilm national film studio proposed its structural reformation. From now on, the studio was to be divided into two creative associations, Miras (“heritage”) and Alem ...
In “The Backward Clock, Truth-Tracking, and Safety”
(2015), Neil Sinhababu and I gave Backward Clock, a
counterexample to Robert Nozick’s (1981) truth-tracking analysis
of knowledge. In “Knowledge as Fact-Tracking True ...
Scarborough, Daniel(RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ACAD NATL ECONOMY & PUBLIC ADM, 2019)
In the months after the February Revolution, the Church was convulsed by a general revolt against ecclesiastical authority. The Church survived this revolt, and organized an " All- Russian Council ( Sobor)" from September ...
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay(Nazarbayev University School of Sciences and Humanities, 2019-01)
The Buriat Buddhists who constituted the majority of the Buddhist population of the former Russian Empire did not stay away from the revolutionary events. The secular segment of the Buriat society viewed the collapse of ...
The Fatimid era is ubiquitous today in the discourse of the Nizari
Ismaili imamate. Yet this was not always the case. As with other
societies and religious communities the world over, the arrangement
and presentation ...
Beben, Daniel(Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History., 2018)
The Ismailis are one of the largest Muslim minority populations of Central Asia, and they
make up the second largest Shiʿi Muslim community globally. First emerging in the
second half of the 8th century, the Ismaili ...
Beben, Daniel(in: Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia: The Mountain Communities of Pamir. Routledge, 2018)
One of the most conspicuous aspects of the culture and identity of the Pamiri peoples today is the prevalence of Jsma'TIT ShT'ism within the region. Yet the prominence of Jsma'Tlism in the Pamirs in the present day is ...
Цыремпилов (Tsyrempilov), Н. (N).(Религиоведение., 2012-10)
Попытки рационального осмысления буддизма, пред-
принимавшиеся православными интеллектуалами, всегда были сугу-
бо формальными. Исследовательский поиск был для них лишь удоб-
ной формой, с помощью которой они могли ...
Samten, Jampa; Tsyrempilov, Nikolay(Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 2012)
Letters, like human beings, can have complicated fates. This is especially true for the letters presented here – letters that were for many years stored on the dusty shelves of the Antireligious Museum of Verkhneudinsk. ...
Cofran, Zachary; DeSilva, Jeremy M.(Journal of Human Evolution, 2015-04-01)
Abstract The Mojokerto calvaria has been central to assessment of brain growth in Homo erectus, but different analytical approaches and uncertainty in the specimen's age at death have hindered consensus on the nature of ...
This article analyses the Russian policy towards foreign Buddhist clergy who penetrated into the Russian Empire from Mongolia and Tibet between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on archive materials, ...
In 1925, the USSR communist party’s Central Asian Bureau ordered an inquiry on the countryside, resulting in the series The Modern Central Asian Village. It combined pre-revolutionary methods with Soviet attention to social ...
This article studies when, how, and by whom the decision to nationalise land properties the rent from which supported mosques, shrines, and hostels (rather than schools) was first taken in Soviet Uzbekistan. Through a ...
Tsyrempilov, Nikolay(State, Religion and Church, 2016)
The paper examines the causes and circumstances of the establish- ment of a Buddhist theocratic state by Lubsan-Samdan Tsydenov, an outstanding figure of Buriat Buddhism. Drawing upon some hitherto unedited Tibetan, Mongolian ...
Tibetan Buddhism, in the eyes of Orthodox Christian polemicists, was always seen as a harmful paganism, and fifighting against this ‘superstition’ was a high priority. Based on analysis of nineteenth-century Russian Orthodox ...