Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union Pelkmans Mathijs
Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union Pelkmans Mathijs The large and sudden influx of missionaries into the former Soviet Union…
Specifikacia Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union Pelkmans Mathijs
Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union Pelkmans Mathijs
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. This volume's focus on conversion offers a novel approach to the dislocations of the postsocialist experience. Although these concerns have been vigorously discussed in national arenas, social scientists have remained remarkably silent about the subject.
Instead, they unravel the unexpected twists and turns of religious 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, thus challenging the problematic idea that religious life after socialism involved a simple "revival" of repressed religious traditions.