Religionational Fusion and State Involvement in Religion in Central Asia

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Brief Overview

This paper uses new original survey data from Kyrgyzstan to test a series of hypotheses on the effects of state involvement in religion—disaggregated into regulation, rhetoric, and symbols—on the degree of fusion of religious and national identity.

Author

• Dustin Mitchell Gamza, University of Michigan