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Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism

Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism

Wanner, Catherine

Hardcover

Series: Culture and Society After Socialism

AnthropologyGeneral ChristianityRussian History

ISBN10: 0801445922
ISBN13: 9780801445927
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Sep 7 2007
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.37
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embrace of ecstatic experience, replete with a belief in faith healing. Catherine Wanner's historically informed ethnography, the first book on evangelism in the former Soviet Union, shows how once-marginal Ukrainian evangelical communities are now thriving and growing in social and political prominence. Many Soviet evangelicals relocated to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, expanding the spectrum of evangelicalism in the United States and altering religious life in Ukraine. Migration has created new transnational evangelical communities that are now asserting a new public role for religion in the resolution of numerous social problems.

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