Title: Religious identity and social change : explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world /
Authors: Radford, David
Year: 2015
Subjects: Christian converts from Islam Kyrgyzstan.; Christianity and other religions Islam; Islam Relations Christianity; Identification (Religion); Christian converts from Islam.; Christianity; Identification (Religion); Interfaith relations.; Islam; Religion; Kyrgyzstan Religion.; Kyrgyzstan
Contents: Making sense of the context -- Methodology and description of Kyrgyz Christians -- Approaches to the study of religious conversion -- Religious capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- The social and cultural capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- Life situations, solutions and explanations -- Living out a minority Kyrgyz Christian identity in a majority Muslim Kyrgyz world -- Religious conversion and the re-construction of ethnic identity.