Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /

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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Autore principale: Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- (Autore)
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Sommario:
  • 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.