4 Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion

Vallikivi, Laur

doi:10.1515/9781845459628-005

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“…The cultural contexts of conversion in many cases lead to certain social costs, both positive and negative (Harris 2006;Hefner 1993). In the post-Soviet context, conversion has been studied with regards to the history, politics, and socio-cultural diversity of the regions (Pelkmans 2009;Vagramenko 2014;Vallikivi 2009;Vallikivi 2014;Wanner 2007;Zigon 2011), often including conflicts with dominant religious and secular narratives (see e.g. Wanner 2007, 141-46).…”

Section: Conversion As An Act and Processmentioning

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“I used to be a traitor”

Mikeshin

2024

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This article discusses adult conversion in the Russian Baptist community as the unlearning of old sinful ways of living. Russian Baptists see conversion as an act of repentance, surrendering to Christ, and becoming born again, and as a life-long process of growing in faith. Based on an ethnographic study of the Baptist community in north-western and central Russia, the article discusses the glocal nature of the Russian Baptist community that attracts the kind of people that convert to this faith and the circumstances of their conversion. Russian Baptist conversion is viewed as an act and a process, and conversion is seen as an ethical choice and an unlearning of the old ways of living.

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“I used to be a traitor”

Mikeshin

2024

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Siberia

Vitebsky

Alekseyev

2015

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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Siberia is a vast and varied region, linked horizontally to the circumpolar Arctic and vertically to Mongolia and Central Asia. Nineteenth-century anthropological fieldwork was important abroad, particularly in America. From the 1920 to 1980s, Siberia was almost totally isolated from outside research and from comparative anthropology. However, Soviet anthropologists conducted lengthy fieldwork, producing a huge corpus of valuable material in Russian. Their questions were specific to their ideological situation, for example placing indigenous peoples in a Marxist evolutionary framework, and during the 1930s, many suffered imprisonment and execution. Topics became more sociological in the 1960s, and when the region opened to foreigners around 1990, a new wave of young researchers conducted long-term fieldwork, producing a flourishing new literature in English and shifting the emphasis from historical reconstruction to current issues. Topics in this new literature include the state, agency, modernization, shamanism, animal spirits, resource development, and empowerment. Throughout all periods, indigenous people themselves have also been involved in research.

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Book Review: Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic

Istomin

2024

Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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4 Christianization of Words and Selves: Nenets Reindeer Herders Joining the State through Conversion

Cited by 7 publications

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“I used to be a traitor”

“I used to be a traitor”

Siberia

Book Review: Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic

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