Conversion After Socialism
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Conversion After Socialism

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

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Conversion After Socialism

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

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9781845456177
eBook ISBN
9781845459628
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Religion
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Title Page-Conversation after Socialism
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Chapter 1-Introduction: Post-Soviet Space and the Unexpected Turns of Religious Life
  5. Chapter 2-Conversion to Religion?
  6. Chapter 3-Redefining Chukchi Practices in Contexts of Conversion to Pentecostalism
  7. Chapter 4-Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion
  8. Chapter 5-Right Singing and Conversion to Orthodox Christianity in Estonia
  9. Chapter 6-The Civility and Pragmatism of Charismatic Christianity in Lithuania
  10. Chapter 7-Networks of Faith in Kazakhstan
  11. Chapter 8-Temporary Conversions: Encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan
  12. Chapter 9-Conversion and the Mobile Self: Evangelicalism as'Travelling Culture'
  13. Chapter 10-Postsocialism, Postcolonialism, Pentecostalism
  14. Notes on Contributors
  15. Index