Conversion after socialism
Disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19997522 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludek Broz (0000-0002-9971-0496), William Clark (0009-0004-5498-0654), Jeffers Engelhardt (0000-0001-5200-1943), Gediminas Lankauskas, J D Y Peel, Laur Vallikivi (0000-0003-3971-170X), Virginie Vaté (0000-0003-3067-2943), Catherine Wanner (0000-0001-6079-8542) |
| Editors | M Pelkmans (0000-0001-5188-3470) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Reviewed by | Conversion after Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union, A Agadjanian, 2010 |
| Venue | Conversion after Socialism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books, Incorporated (PUBLISHER) |
| OpenAlex | W574495271 |
| Open Library | OL38659924M |
| ISBN | 9781845459628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
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 wellresearched ethnographic accounts the authors analyse 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
Communism · Epistemology · Ethnography · Faith · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Religious conversion · Secularism · Socialism · Sociology · Soviet union · Subject (documents) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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“Ghosts of Missionaries”
I used to be a traitor
A constant border-crossing
Russification as a factor in religious conversion. Making Lenin roll over in his grave
Reframing national locality
Christian Conversion and the Re-imagining of Illness and Healthcare in Rural China
The Commemoration Rite of Asiatic Yup'ik [Eskimos] and the Contemporary Ritual Space of Novoe Chaplino and Sirenkiki
Realigning Religion and Power in Central Asia
Religion, customs and local identity
Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Creating an Evangelical self
The Modernity of Manual Reproduction
Paradoxes of Religious Freedom and Repression in (Post-)Soviet Contexts
Prêtre à l’heure des bouleversements politiques en Russie
Ruins of hope in a Kyrgyz post‐industrial wasteland (Respond to this article at http
Foreign faiths and national renewal
Religious practice and belief in the Republic of Buryatia
Central Asia in the Post-Cold War World
Lud, t. 97, 2013
The ambiguous role of materiality in transitions to Orthodox Christianity in contemporary Finland
Postsocialisms Unbound
Spiritual Power, Witchcraft and Protestants
Singing songs for a secular society? The elusive politics of cultural activism in contemporary Bangladesh
Central Asia, Anthropology of
A wider audience for anthropology? Political dimensions of an important debate
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,65 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |