TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pelkmans, Mathijs
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.26530/oapen_627435
ID  - OAPEN ID: 627435
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 957077683
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31502
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - scientific atheism
KW  - evangelical Christianity
KW  - Sunni Islamic revivalism
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Kyrgyzstan
KW  - Pentecostalism
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Tablighi Jamaat
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31502/1/627435.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31502/1/627435.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31502/1/627435.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31502/1/627435.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36262
PB  - Cornell University Press
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PY  - 2017-02-14
SN  - 9781501705137
TI  - Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan
ER  - 
