Conversion After Socialism : : Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union / / ed. by Mathijs Pelkmans.
The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union after seventy years of militant secularism has been controversial, and the widespread occurrence of conversion has led to anxiety about social and national disintegration. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life
- 2 Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai
- 3 Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism
- 4 Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion
- 5 Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia
- 6 The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania
- 7 Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan
- 8 Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan
- 9 Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as ‘Travelling Culture’
- 10 Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism
- Notes on Contributors
- Index