Discover Global Society submission package — technical-check corrected version

Files
1. DGS_Revised_Manuscript_Technical_Check_Corrected.docx — upload as the revised manuscript file.
2. DGS_Title_Page_Technical_Check_Corrected.docx — upload as the title page / author information file if the submission system requests a separate title page.
3. DGS_Online_Resource_1_Technical_Check_Corrected.docx — upload as supplementary material / Online Resource 1.
4. DGS_Cover_Letter_Technical_Check_Corrected.docx — optional cover letter.

Technical-check corrections made
- Author names are now included in the manuscript and title page in the requested order: Zhanna Khamzina, Amangeldy Khamzin, Yermek Buribayev.
- Funding declaration is included in the manuscript and title page.
- The manuscript and title page include the required statement: Clinical trial number: not applicable.
- The manuscript and title page include the required statement: Ethics, Consent to Participate, and Consent to Publish declarations: not applicable.
- Discover Global Society wording is used in the cover letter and package notes; outdated Human Studies / double-anonymous wording has been removed from ancillary files.

Metadata prepared for upload
Title: Secularity, Religious Pluralism, and Administrative Governance in Kazakhstan: A Human-Sciences Analysis of State–Religion Interfaces
Author order: Zhanna Khamzina; Amangeldy Khamzin; Yermek Buribayev
Corresponding author: Yermek Buribayev (yermek-a@mail.ru)

Declarations included
- Funding
- Competing interests
- Clinical trial number
- Ethics, Consent to Participate, and Consent to Publish declarations
- Data availability
- Materials availability
- Code availability
- Author contributions