Cyber-Islamic Environment in the Religious Field of Kazakhstan

Kupeshov  Kanat; Satershinov  Bakhitzhan; Shagyrbay  Almasbek; Meimankhozha  Nurmukhammed; Zhanat  Aldiyarova; Nurgul Tutinova

Kupeshov Kanat Egyptian University of Islamic Culture Nur Mubarak, Almaty, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5033-6897
Satershinov Bakhitzhan Institute for Philosophy, Political Science and Religion Studies of the Committee of Science, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5094-9682
Shagyrbay Almasbek Institute for Philosophy, Political Science and Religion Studies of the Committee of Science, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9146-1408
Meimankhozha Nurmukhammed Department of Religious Studies, Nur-Mubarak Egyptian University of Islamic Culture, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4801-8347
Zhanat Aldiyarova Department of Religious Studies, Egyptian University of Islamic Culture Nur Mubarak, Almaty, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6585-2198
Nurgul Tutinova Department of Religious Studies, Buketov Karaganda National Islamic University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3476-7328

Keywords: cyber-Islam and security, digitalization of religion, internet, social networks, virtual Islam

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Thanks to the rapid pace of digitalization and modern technological innovations, the boundaries between online and offline spheres of Muslim life are changing. The current study analyzed the emergence of a cyber-Islamic environment in the religious field of Kazakhstan. As a result of the content analysis, the problem of synthesis of secular and religious, national and confessional, traditional and innovative values as the main discourses of the Kazakh segment of the pan-Islamic religious process was revealed. There is low cyber activity of official Islam against rapidly-growing unofficial influence. According to the authors, secular Kazakhstan needs a balanced Islam in the relations of faith and reason, which recognizes modern human rights, the rule of law, social justice, and the priority of human capital development.

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