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Fragile Conviction : Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (230 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501708381
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fragile ConvictionDDC classification:
  • 200.95843
LOC classification:
  • DK916.P455 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Fragile Conviction -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Ideational Power in Times of Turmoil -- Part I: Uncertain Times and Places -- 1. Shattered Transition: The Reordering of Kyrgyz Society -- 2. Condition of Uncertainty: Life in an Industrial Wasteland -- Part II: Dynamics of Conviction -- 3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism? -- 4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- 5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier -- 6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing -- Conclusion: Pulsation and the Dynamics of Conviction -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire.
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Fragile Conviction -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Ideational Power in Times of Turmoil -- Part I: Uncertain Times and Places -- 1. Shattered Transition: The Reordering of Kyrgyz Society -- 2. Condition of Uncertainty: Life in an Industrial Wasteland -- Part II: Dynamics of Conviction -- 3. What Happened to Soviet Atheism? -- 4. Walking the Truth in Islam with the Tablighi Jamaat -- 5. Pentecostal Miracle Truth on the Frontier -- 6. The Tenacity of Spiritual Healing and Seeing -- Conclusion: Pulsation and the Dynamics of Conviction -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan, Fragile Conviction shows how residents have dealt with the existential and epistemic crises that arose after the collapse of the Soviet Empire.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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