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Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /

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How does ideology function during periods of political and economic turmoil? This book, based on long-term ethnographic research in a destitute former mining town in Kyrgyzstan, testifies to the precariousness of life in the former Soviet republics in the decades after the collapse of the USSR. It f...

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Main Author: Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Volksreligion
Pfingstbewegung
Islam
Atheismus
Konversion > Religion
Religiöser Wandel
Postkommunismus
Religionsausübung
Religionsethnologie
Religious life.
Post-communism.
Politics and government.
Intellectual life.
Ideology.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
RELIGION > Reference.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Anthropology.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Post-communism > Kyrgyzstan.
Ideology > Kyrgyzstan.
Bischkek
Kirgisien
Kyrgyzstan.
Kirghizistan > Politique et gouvernement > 1991-
Kyrgyzstan > Politics and government > 1991-
Kyrgyzstan > Religious life.
Kyrgyzstan > Intellectual life.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland
  • What happened to Soviet atheism?
  • Walking the truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat
  • Pentecostal miracle truth on the frontier
  • The tenacity of spiritual healing and seeing
  • Conclusion : pulsation : dynamics of conviction.

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