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

Imprint New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 208 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Vate -- 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Christianity -- Russia (Federation)
Conversion.
Missions -- Russia (Federation)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781845456177 (hardback : alk. paper)
1845456173 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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