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Mathijs Pelkmans (Ed.) - Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union - 9781845456177 - V9781845456177
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Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

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Description for Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Pelkmans, Mathijs. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 tables, 4 images. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HR; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845456177
SKU
V9781845456177
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99-1

About Mathijs Pelkmans (Ed.)
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union
“Material deprivation and social dislocation remain defining features of post-Soviet societies. This volume adds much-needed depth to previous analyses of coping strategies and networks of support by exploring the moral dimension of individual subjective experience…[and] makes an original and important contribution to our understanding of post-socialist and postcolonial societies and speaks to the renewed interest in religion within the discipline.”  ... Read more

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