In Search of a ‘New Orthodoxy': Islamic Education in Post-Soviet Tatarstan
The study aims to examine who and how control public discourse and form a "New Orthodoxy" in the field of Islam and religious education in the Republic of Tatarstan? How the “Orthodoxy” is shifting in the context of changing religious elites in the Republic (from the end of 1990 till the beginning of 2020-es)? What are the instruments of the state (at the Federal and Republican levels) in its influence on the sphere of religious education and what goals it outlines for itself; how the general direction of the state policy towards centralization and the support of "traditional values" and reliance on conservative circles reflected in the sphere of religious education. And finally how the local religious and secular communities respond to the challenges of the times: for example, the influence of International Islamic movements, policies of the secular state, low religious observance of local Muslims and many others.