Fragile Conviction : : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /

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Fragile Conviction : : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan / / Mathijs Pelkmans.

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How do specific secular and religious ideologies-such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism-gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Pelkmans, Mathijs,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Uncertain Times and Places
  • 1. Shattered Transition
  • 2. Condition of Uncertainty
  • Part II. Dynamics of Conviction
  • 3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism?
  • 4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat
  • 5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier
  • 6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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