Publications of Julie McBrien

McBrien, Julie. 2009. Mukada's struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15: 127–144.

McBrien, Julie and Mathijs Pelkmans. 2008. Turning Marx on his head: missionaries, "extremists" and archaic secularists in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Critique of Anthropology 28(1): 87–103.

McBrien, Julie. 2006. Listening to the wedding speaker: discussing religion and culture in Southern Kyrgyzstan. Central Asian Survey 25(3): 341–357.

McBrien, Julie and Vlad Naumešcu. 2022. The 'post' in perspective: revisiting the post-socialist religious question in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe. In: Juraj Buzalka and Agnieszka Pasieka (eds.). Anthropology of transformation: from Europe to Asia and back; essays in honour of Professor Chris Hann. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, pp. 51–80.

McBrien, Julie. 2010. Muslim life in a Kyrgyz-Uzbek town. In: Chris Hann (ed.). Religion, identity, postsocialism: the Halle Focus Group 2003 - 2010. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, pp. 37–40.

McBrien, Julie. 2010. Mukadas’s struggle: veils and modernity in Kyrgyzstan. In: Filippo Osella (ed.). Islam, politics, anthropology. Malden: Wiley Blackwell, pp. 121–137.

McBrien, Julie. 2009. Tolerating diversity: secularism and political Islam in Europe and Central Asia. In: Corinna Hauswedell (ed.). Co-operation with Central Asia: the potential of the EU's Central Asia strategy. Loccumer Protokolle 55/08. Rehburg-Loccum: Evangelische Akademie Loccum, pp. 205–212.

McBrien, Julie. 2006. Extreme conversations: secularism, religious pluralism, and the rhetoric of Islamic extremism in Southern Kyrgyzstan. In: Chris Hann and "Civil Religion" Group (eds.). The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia: HSAE 11. Münster: LIT, pp. 47–73.

McBrien, Julie. 2008. The fruit of devotion: Islam and modernity in Kyrgyzstan. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.

McBrien, Julie. 2007. Brazilian TV and Muslimness in Kyrgyzstan. ISIM Newsletter 19. International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World. https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/access/item%3A2715161/view#page=16.

McBrien, Julie. 2017. From belonging to belief: modern secularisms and the construction of religion in Kyrgyzstan. Central Eurasia in Context. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.