Pelkmans, Mathijs (2009) Temporary conversions: encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan. In: Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, New York, pp. 143-162. ISBN 9781845456177
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The focus on temporary conversions in this chapter serves to challenge the tendency, discernable in many contemporary anthropological studies, to see conversion ultimately as a unidirectional process. The author presents two case studies of Pentecostal church planting in Kyrgyzstan by the Church of Jesus Christ (CJC) which show very different results. He suggests that in order to understand the chequered advance of Pentecostal Christianity we need to move beyond a focus on the attraction of messages (ideas, ideals, ideologies, cosmologies) and consider how these messages are acted out in real life. The chapter focuses on the relationship between advanced ideas and the social fabric within which they obtain their experienced reality, in order to gain insight in the complex dynamics of (temporary) conversion to Pentecostal Christianity.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Conversion B Mission theology/theory > Contextualization/Inculturation B Mission theology/theory > Mission and Social responsibility G Christian traditions/Denominations > Pentecostal |
| Divisions: | Central Asia > Kyrgyzstan |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2021 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2021 10:56 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/1912 |
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