Religious Identity and Social Change
Explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world
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Gewicht:
476 g
Format:
231x155x18 mm
Beschreibung:
Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation.
Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation.
1. Introduction 2. Making Sense of the Context 3. Methodology and Description of Kyrgyz Christians 4. Approaches to the Study of Religious Conversion 5. Religious Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion 6. The Social and Cultural Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion 7. Life Situations, Solutions and Explanations 8. Living out a Minority Kyrgyz Christian Identity in a Majority Muslim Kyrgyz World 9. Religious Conversion and the Re-construction of Ethnic Identity Epilogue Appendices