Conversion after socialism
Subtitle: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
By: edited by Mathijs Pelkmans.
Contributors: Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781845456177
Subjects: Christianity -- Russia (Federation); Conversion; Missions -- Russia (Federation)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life / Mathijs Pelkmans; title: Conversion to religion? : negotiating continuity and discontinuity in contemporary Altai / Ludek Broz; title: Redefining Chukchi practices in contexts of conversion to Pentecostalism / Virginie Vaté; title: Christianization of words and selves : Nenets reindeer herders joining the state through conversion / Laur Vallikivi; title: Right singing and conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia / Jeffers Engelhardt; title: The civility and pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania / Gediminas Lankauskas; title: Networks of faith in Kazakhstan / William Clark; title: Temporary conversions : encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans; title: Conversion and the mobile self : evangelicalism as 'travelling culture' / Catherine Wanner; title: Postsocialism, postcolonialism, Pentecostalism / J.D.Y. Peel.