Fragile Conviction: Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan

by Mathijs Pelkmans

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How do specific secular and religious ideologies--such as nationalism, neoliberalism, atheism, Pentecostalism, Tablighi Islam, and shamanism--gain popularity and when do they lose traction? To answer these questions, Mathijs Pelkmans critically examines the trajectories of a range of ideologies as they move into the post-Soviet frontier in Central Asia. Ethnographically rooted in the everyday life of a former mining town in southern Kyrgyzstan,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501705148

ISBN13:9781501705144

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:0.76 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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