Liutkevičius, Eugenijus (2023) “Ghosts of Missionaries”: On Contemporary Baptist Mission in Ukraine. Journal of Religion in Europe, 16 (3). pp. 267-287. ISSN 1874-8910
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From the late 1980s, foreign—primarily American—missionaries started to travel to Ukraine in large numbers. This article is concerned with the impact of American Baptist missionaries and how their influence was perceived locally in 2016, the time of my fieldwork. When I set out to conduct my fieldwork research among Baptist believers in Lviv, I was surprised that local believers denied the impact of foreign missionaries on their communities and worship style. Moreover, many local Baptist churchgoers I met claimed they had never encountered an American missionary and insisted that foreign missionaries had not played any significant role in the development and transformation of Ukrainian Baptism. In this article, I present the data from the fieldwork and analyze the Ukrainian Baptists’ reasons for minimizing the influence through the perspective of religioscapes, and glocalization as the dialectic process between homogeneity and heterogeneity.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | glocalization, cultural impact of missionaries |
| Subjects: | B Mission theology/theory > Contextualization/Inculturation C Types of Christian Ministry > Missionaries G Christian traditions/Denominations > Evangelical G Christian traditions/Denominations > Baptist |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Ukraine |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2024 10:07 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2024 10:07 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2910 |
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