Fragile Conviction: Changing Ideological Landscapes in Urban Kyrgyzstan

by Mathijs Pelkmans

Book Overview

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