Fragile Conviction

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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Автор: Pelkmans, Mathijs
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Опубліковано: Cornell University Press 2021
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scientific atheism
evangelical Christianity
Sunni Islamic revivalism
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Kyrgyzstan
Pentecostalism
Soviet Union
Tablighi Jamaat
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Sunni Islamic revivalism
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Kyrgyzstan
Pentecostalism
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