LEADER 03849oam 22006734a 450 001 9910169192003321 005 20240505221423.0 010 $a1-5017-0837-6 010 $a1-5017-0838-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501708381 035 $a(CKB)3710000001134530 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001721117 035 $a(OCoLC)957077683 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57115 035 $a(DLC) 2016038725 035 $a(DE-B1597)492946 035 $a(OCoLC)1033566025 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501708381 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4835158 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11382415 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1006899 035 $a(ScCtBLL)06995576-fb3d-4634-bcbb-a747c012561d 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4835158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31735504 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31735504 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001134530 100 $a20160819d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFragile Conviction$echanging ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan$fMathijs Pelkmans 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017. 215 $a1 online resource (213 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a1-5017-0513-X 311 08$a9781501705144 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCondition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland -- What happened to Soviet atheism? -- Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier -- The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing -- Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction. 330 $aHow 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 they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Residents became enchanted by the truths of Muslim and Christian missionaries, embraced the teachings of neoliberal and nationalist ideologues, and were riveted by the visions of shamanic healers. But no matter how much enthusiasm and hope these ideas first engendered, the commitment to any of them rarely lasted very long.Pelkmans finds that there is an inverse relationship between the tenacity and the effervescence of collective ideas, between their strength to persist and their ability to trigger committed action. Introducing the concept of pulsation, he argues in Fragile Conviction that ideational power must be understood in relation to three aspects: the voicing of the idea, its tension with everyday reality, and its reverberation within groups of listeners. The conclusion that the power of conviction is rooted in the instability of sociocultural contexts is a message that has relevance far beyond urban Central Asia. 606 $aPost-communism$zKyrgyzstan 606 $aIdeology$zKyrgyzstan 607 $aKyrgyzstan$xPolitics and government$y1991- 607 $aKyrgyzstan$xReligious life 607 $aKyrgyzstan$xIntellectual life 615 0$aPost-communism 615 0$aIdeology 676 $a200.95843 700 $aPelkmans$b Mathijs$f1973-$0894930 712 02$aKnowledge Unlatched 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910169192003321 996 $aFragile conviction$91999480 997 $aUNINA