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UNINA9910791243303321 |
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Titolo |
Conversion after socialism [[electronic resource] ] : disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union / / edited by Mathijs Pelkmans |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-62812-7 |
9786612628122 |
1-84545-962-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christianity - Russia (Federation) |
Conversion |
Missions - Russia (Federation) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 VateĢ -- 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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