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Fragile conviction : changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Ideology > Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan > Intellectual life.
Kyrgyzstan > Religious life.
Post-communism > Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyzstan > Politics and government > 1991-
Ideology.
Intellectual life.
Politics and government.
Post-communism.
Religious life.
Kyrgyzstan.
Since 1991
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : ideational power in times of turmoil
  • Part I. Uncertain times and places. Shattered transition : the reordering of Kyrgyz society
  • Condition of uncertainty : life in an industrial wasteland
  • Part II. Dynamics of conviction. 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 and dynamics of conviction.