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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816112803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62812-7

9786612628122

1-84545-962-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PelkmansMathijs <1973->

Disciplina

266.00947/09049

Soggetti

Christianity - Russia (Federation)

Conversion

Missions - Russia (Federation)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Vate -- 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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 in national arenas, social scientists have remained



remarkably silent about the subject. This volume's focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. In eight wellresearched ethnographic accounts the authors analyse a range of missionary encounters a