Communities of the Converted : : Ukrainians and Global Evangelism / / Catherine Wanner.

After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011]
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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Culture and Society after Socialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 12 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Part One. SOVIET EVANGELICALS
  • CHAPTER ONE. SPIRITUAL SEEKERS IN A SECULARIZING STATE, 1905-1941
  • CHAPTER Two. ENLIGHTENING THE FAITHFUL, 1941-1988
  • Part Two. MISSIONIZING AND MOVEMENT
  • CHAPTER THREE. THE REWARDS OF SUFFERING: The Last Soviet Refugees
  • CHAPTER FOUR. MISSIONIZING, CONVERTING, AND REMAKING THE MORAL SELF
  • Part Three. A WORLD WITHOUT END
  • CHAPTER FIVE. GOD Is LOVE: New Bonds, New Communities
  • CHAPTER SIX. AMBASSADORS OF GOD
  • EPILOGUE. Religion as Portal to the World
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX