David Radford

Religious Identity and Social Change

Explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367869755
• ISBN-10: 0367869756
• Artikelnr.: 58439852

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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