Religious Identity and Social Change: Explaining Christian Conversion in a Muslim World

ISBN-13: 9780367869755 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 200 str.

David Radford

Opis

Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transf

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Making Sense of the Context  3. Methodology and Description of Kyrgyz Christians  4. Approaches to the Study of Religious Conversion  5. Religious Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion  6. The Social and Cultural Capital and Kyrgyz Conversion  7. Life Situations, Solutions and Explanations  8. Living out a Minority Kyrgyz Christian Identity in a Majority Muslim Kyrgyz World  9. Religious Conversion and the Re-construction of Ethnic Identity  Epilogue  Appendices

O autorze

David Radford is Senior Research Fellow at the Hawke Research Institute, where he is Lecturer in the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of South Australia.