ISBN:
9781138022829
Language:
English
Pages:
XXVII, 199 S
,
Ill
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology 150
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology
DDC:
305.6/75843
Keywords:
Christian converts from Islam
;
Christianity and other religions Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Christianity
;
Identification (Religion)
;
Kyrgyzstan Religion
;
Kirgisien
;
Kirgisen
;
Muslim
;
Konversion
;
Christentum
Abstract:
Making sense of the context -- Methodology and description of Kyrgyz Christians -- Approaches to the study of religious conversion -- Religious capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- The social and cultural capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- Life situations, solutions and explanations -- Living out a minority Kyrgyz Christian identity in a majority Muslim Kyrgyz world -- Religious conversion and the re-construction of ethnic identity
Description / Table of Contents:
Making sense of the contextMethodology and description of Kyrgyz Christians -- Approaches to the study of religious conversion -- Religious capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- The social and cultural capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- Life situations, solutions and explanations -- Living out a minority Kyrgyz Christian identity in a majority Muslim Kyrgyz world -- Religious conversion and the re-construction of ethnic identity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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