Mikeshin, Igor (2020) "It was easier in prison!" Russian Baptist Rehab as a Therapeutic Community, Monastery, Prison, and Ministry. In: Lived Religion, Conversion and Recovery: Negotiating of Self, the Social, and the Sacred. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 43-66. ISBN 9783030406820
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This chapter revisits a Foucauldian concept of “complete and austere institutions,” using the ethnographic study of therapeutic communities, monasteries, prisons, and religious ministries to draw a line between those concepts, specifically addressing a Christian ministry in the Russian Baptist interpretation. My argument is based on an ethnographic account of the Russian Baptist ministry for people suffering from addiction. I unfold the concept of an Evangelical ministry, contrasting it to the Foucauldian austere institutions in order to highlight its nature. I argue that even though a rehabilitation ministry may use methods and techniques of austere institutions, and even resemble them in their implementation, the distinctive feature of a ministry is its focus on the result, rather than the process, interpreted as serving God by serving men.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Anthropology of Christianity, Christian Ministry |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Public Theology C Types of Christian Ministry > Discipleship C Types of Christian Ministry > Compassion ministries and humanitarian aid G Christian traditions/Denominations > Baptist |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Russian Federation |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2022 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2022 09:01 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2611 |
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