Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism

by Catherine Wanner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474027
• ISBN13: 9780801474026
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher