Eren Tasar

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Eren Tasar is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History at UNC Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. in Soviet history in 2010 from Harvard, where he studied with Prof. Terry Martin. He is the author of the widely acclaimed Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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Muslim Atheism in Central Asia

Monday, April 1, 2024
12:30 to 2pm EDT

In person

Unlike centrally promulgated Soviet atheism, the atheism encountered in Central Asian languages was far more contradictory, often embracing Islam and denigrating it at the same time. This talk will chart the phenomenon's birth in the 1950s and its development as a body of literature in the 1960s.

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Eren Tasar

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, UNC Chapel Hill

Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

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