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

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-208) and index.
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.
Summary	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.
Subject	Ideology -- Kyrgyzstan.
	Post-communism -- Kyrgyzstan.
	Kyrgyzstan -- Intellectual life.
	Kyrgyzstan -- Religious life.
	Kyrgyzstan -- Politics and government -- 1991-
	RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
	RELIGION -- Essays.
	RELIGION -- Reference.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
	Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
	Sociology and anthropology.
	Anthropology.
	Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
	Ideology. (OCoLC)fst00966915
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Post-communism. (OCoLC)fst01072730
	Religious life. (OCoLC)fst01094112
	Kyrgyzstan. (OCoLC)fst01260659
	Religionsethnologie.
	Religionsausübung.
	Postkommunismus.
	Religiöser Wandel.
	Konversion Religion.
	Atheismus.
	Islam.
	Pfingstbewegung.
	Volksreligion.
	Kyrgyzstan.
	Bischkek.
Chronological Term	Since 1991
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Online version: Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- author. Fragile conviction Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501708374 (DLC) 2016038725
ISBN	9781501705137 (cloth : alk. paper)
	150170513X
	1501705148
	9781501708381
	9781501705144 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781501708374
	1501708376
	1501708384
Standard No.	40026951633

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