Conversion After Socialism (eBook, PDF)

Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union
Redaktion: Pelkmans, Mathijs

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Produktbeschreibung

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. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject. This volume's focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. In eight well researched ethnographic accounts the authors analyze a range of missionary encounters as well as aspects of conversion and "anti-conversion" in different parts of the region, thus challenging the problematic idea that religious life after socialism involved a simple "revival" of repressed religious traditions. Instead, they unravel the unexpected twists and turns of religious dynamics, and the processes that have challenged popular ideas about religion and culture. The contributions show how conversion is rooted in the disruptive qualities of the new "capitalist experience" and document its unsettling effects on the individual and social level.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781845459628
• Artikelnr.: 39598912

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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