Fragile conviction : changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan

Fragile conviction : changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans.

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Since 1991
Ideology > Kyrgyzstan.
Post-communism > Kyrgyzstan.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
Anthropology.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Ideology
Intellectual life
Politics and government
Post-communism
Religious life
Religionsethnologie
Religionsausübung
Postkommunismus
Religiöser Wandel
Konversion > Religion
Atheismus
Islam
Pfingstbewegung
Volksreligion
Kyrgyzstan > Intellectual life.
Kyrgyzstan > Religious life.
Kyrgyzstan > Politics and government > 1991-
Kyrgyzstan
Kirgisien
Bischkek
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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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