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Author Wanner, Catherine, author.

Title Communities of the converted : Ukrainians and global evangelism / Catherine Wanner
Published Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Series Culture and society after socialism
Culture and society after socialism.
Contents Spiritual seekers in a secularizing state, 1905-1941 -- Enlightening the faithful, 1941-1988 -- The rewards of suffering : the last Soviet refugees -- Missionizing, converting, and remaking the moral self -- God is love : new bonds, new communities -- Ambassadors of God -- Epilogue : religion as portal to the world
Summary In revealing the phenomenal transformation of religious life in a land once thought to be militantly godless, Wanner shows how formerly socialist countries experience evangelical revival. She engages issues of migration, morality, secularization, and global evangelism, while highlighting how they have been shaped by postsocialism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-295) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Evangelicalism -- Ukraine
Evangelistic work -- Ukraine
Church and state -- Ukraine
Secularism -- Ukraine
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Church and state
Evangelicalism
Evangelistic work
Religion
Secularism
Protestantismus
SUBJECT Ukraine -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139372
Subject Ukraine
Ukraine
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801461903
0801461901