Fragile Conviction :Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan

Publication subTitle :Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan

Author: Pelkmans Mathijs  

Publisher: Cornell University Press‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781501708381

Subject: B9 Religion;C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology;K3 Asian History

Keyword: 宗教,文化人类学、社会人类学,亚洲史

Language: ENG

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Description

Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire

Chapter

Part I. Uncertain Times and Places

1. Shattered Transition

2. Condition of Uncertainty

Part II. Dynamics of Conviction

3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism?

4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat

5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier

6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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