LEADER 04085nam 2200685 a 450 001 996450353703316 005 20220107074046.0 010 $a0-8014-6190-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801461903 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036177 035 $a(EBL)3138142 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529803 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11343424 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529803 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557247 035 $a(PQKB)11715241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138142 035 $a(OCoLC)732957102 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28964 035 $a(DE-B1597)515433 035 $a(OCoLC)1083579205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801461903 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138142 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468021 100 $a20070507d2007---- uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCommunities of the converted$b[electronic resource] $eUkrainians and global evangelism /$fCatherine Wanner 210 $aIthaca [N.Y.] $cCornell University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (317 p.) 225 1 $aCulture and society after socialism 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8014-7402-7 311 $a0-8014-4592-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [283]-295) and index. 327 $aSpiritual seekers in a secularizing state, 1905-1941 -- Enlightening the faithful, 1941-1988 -- The rewards of suffering : the last Soviet refugees -- Missionizing, converting, and remaking the moral self -- God is love : new bonds, new communities -- Ambassadors of God -- Epilogue : religion as portal to the world. 330 $aAfter decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980's. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embrace of ecstatic experience, replete with a belief in faith healing. Catherine Wanner's historically informed ethnography, the first book on evangelism in the former Soviet Union, shows how once-marginal Ukrainian evangelical communities are now thriving and growing in social and political prominence. Many Soviet evangelicals relocated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, expanding the spectrum of evangelicalism in the United States and altering religious life in Ukraine. Migration has created new transnational evangelical communities that are now asserting a new public role for religion in the resolution of numerous social problems. Hundreds of American evangelical missionaries have engaged in "church planting" in Ukraine, which is today home to some of the most active and robust evangelical communities in all of Europe. Thanks to massive assistance from the West, Ukraine has become a hub for clerical and missionary training in Eurasia. Many Ukrainians travel as missionaries to Russia and throughout the former Soviet Union. In revealing the phenomenal transformation of religious life in a land once thought to be militantly godless, Wanner shows how formerly socialist countries experience evangelical revival. Communities of the Converted engages issues of migration, morality, secularization, and global evangelism, while highlighting how they have been shaped by socialism. 410 0$aCulture and society after socialism. 606 $aEvangelicalism$zUkraine 606 $aEvangelistic work$zUkraine 606 $aChurch and state$zUkraine 606 $aSecularism$zUkraine 607 $aUkraine$xReligion 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEvangelicalism 615 0$aEvangelistic work 615 0$aChurch and state 615 0$aSecularism 676 $a280/.4094770904 700 $aWanner$b Catherine$01020656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996450353703316 996 $aCommunities of the converted$92414563 997 $aUNISA