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.
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.
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.
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Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 2. Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai Ludek Broz Chapter 3. Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism Virginie Vaté Chapter 4. Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion Laur Vallikivi Chapter 5. Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt Chapter 6. The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania Gediminas Lankauskas Chapter 7. Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan William Clark Chapter 8. Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 9. Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as 'Travelling Culture' Catherine Wanner Chapter 10. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism J.D.Y. Peel Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 2. Conversion to Religion? Negotiating Continuity and Discontinuity in Contemporary Altai Ludek Broz Chapter 3. Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism Virginie Vaté Chapter 4. Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion Laur Vallikivi Chapter 5. Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia Jeffers Engelhardt Chapter 6. The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania Gediminas Lankauskas Chapter 7. Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan William Clark Chapter 8. Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan Mathijs Pelkmans Chapter 9. Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as 'Travelling Culture' Catherine Wanner Chapter 10. Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism J.D.Y. Peel Notes on Contributors Index
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