Conversion after socialism : disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union

Conversion after socialism : disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union / edited by Mathijs Pelkmans.

Other author/creator	Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Description	208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Christianity--Russia (Federation) Conversion. Missions--Russia (Federation)

Contents	Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Conversion to religion? : negotiating continuity and discontinuity in contemporary Altai / Ludek Broz -- Redefining Chukchi practices in contexts of conversion to Pentecostalism / Virginie Vaté -- Christianization of words and selves : Nenets reindeer herders joining the state through conversion / Laur Vallikivi -- Right singing and conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia / Jeffers Engelhardt -- The civility and pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania / Gediminas Lankauskas -- Networks of faith in Kazakhstan / William Clark -- Temporary conversions : encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans -- Conversion and the mobile self : evangelicalism as 'travelling culture' / Catherine Wanner -- Postsocialism, postcolonialism, Pentecostalism / J.D.Y. Peel.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2009047660
ISBN	9781845456177 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN	1845456173 (hardback : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	BR933 .C66 2009	✔ Available	Place Hold