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Conversion After Socialism

Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

Herausgeber: Pelkmans, Mathijs

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Mathijs Pelkmans is Lecturer in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam and worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology from 2003 to 2006. Over the past ten years he has carried out extensive fieldwork in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. He is the author of Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia (2006) and has published on Muslim-Christian relations, territorial borders, political turmoil and postsocialist change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9781845456177
• ISBN-10: 1845456173
• Artikelnr.: 30191414