Pelkmans, Mathijs (2021) Frontier Dynamics: Reflections on Evangelical and Tablighi Missions in Central Asia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63 (1).
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Missionaries have flocked to the Kyrgyz Republic ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Evangelical-Pentecostal and Tablighi missions have been particularly active on what they conceive of as a fertile post-atheist frontier. But as these missions project their message of truth onto the frontier, the dangers of the frontier may overwhelm them. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst foreign and local Tablighis and evangelical-Pentecostals, this article formulates an analytic of the frontier that highlights the affective and relational characteristics of missionary activities and their effects. This analytic explains why and how missionaries are attracted to the frontier, as well as some of the successes and failures of their expansionist efforts. In doing so the article reveals the potency of instability, a feature that is particularly evident in missionary work, but resonates with other frontier situations.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Frontiers, Religious missions, Topology, Islam, Evangelical Christianity |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Contextualization/Inculturation C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionaries F Interreligious Dialogue and Witness > Islam G Christian traditions/Denominations > Evangelical |
| Divisions: | Central Asia |
| Depositing User: | Users 3 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Feb 2021 20:17 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jul 2021 15:13 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1849 |
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