Fragile conviction : changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan /

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 f...

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Main Author:	Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973- (Author)
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Ideology > Kyrgyzstan. Kyrgyzstan > Intellectual life. Kyrgyzstan > Religious life. Post-communism > Kyrgyzstan. 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. Intellectual life. Politics and government. Post-communism. Religious life. Kyrgyzstan. Religionsethnologie. Religionsausübung. Postkommunismus. Religiöser Wandel. Konversion > Religion. Atheismus. Islam. Pfingstbewegung. Volksreligion. Kirgisien. Bischkek. Since 1991 Electronic books.
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by Pelkmans, Mathijs, 1973-
Published 2017

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