Conversion after socialism : disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union /

Other Authors: Pelkmans, Mathijs,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2009
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life / Mathijs Pelkmans
  • Conversion to religion? : negotiating continuity and discontinuity in contemporary Altai / Ludek Broz
  • Redefining Chukchi practices in contexts of conversion to Pentecostalism / Virginie Vaté
  • Christianization of words and selves : Nenets reindeer herders joining the state through conversion / Laur Vallikivi
  • Right singing and conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia / Jeffers Engelhardt
  • The civility and pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania / Gediminas Lankauskas
  • Networks of faith in Kazakhstan / William Clark
  • Temporary conversions : encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans
  • Conversion and the mobile self : evangelicalism as 'travelling culture' / Catherine Wanner
  • Postsocialism, postcolonialism, Pentecostalism / J.D.Y. Peel