Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan /
Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans. - 1 online resource (232 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
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 follows inhabitants as they make sense of a radically changing world and as they try to imbue their lives with relevance and direction, while concentrating in depth on their engagement with a range of religious ideas and other ideological currents, including scientific atheism, evangelical Christianity, Sunni Islamic revivalism, and traditional shamanistic beliefs. By examining such a broad variety of belief systems and how they manifest themselves in daily life, the author provides new insights into how ideology works (or fails to work) and how cultural and religious convictions are collectively produced and shaped.
In English.
9781501708381
Volksreligion
Pfingstbewegung
Islam
Atheismus
Konversion
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.
Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan / Mathijs Pelkmans. - 1 online resource (232 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Open Access
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 follows inhabitants as they make sense of a radically changing world and as they try to imbue their lives with relevance and direction, while concentrating in depth on their engagement with a range of religious ideas and other ideological currents, including scientific atheism, evangelical Christianity, Sunni Islamic revivalism, and traditional shamanistic beliefs. By examining such a broad variety of belief systems and how they manifest themselves in daily life, the author provides new insights into how ideology works (or fails to work) and how cultural and religious convictions are collectively produced and shaped.
In English.
9781501708381
Volksreligion
Pfingstbewegung
Islam
Atheismus
Konversion
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.