Wanner, Catherine,

Communities of the converted : Ukrainians and global evangelism / Catherine Wanner. - Ithaca [N.Y. : Cornell University Press, (c)2007. - 1 online resource (viii, 305 pages) : illustrations. - Culture and society after socialism .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.




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Evangelicalism--Ukraine.
Evangelistic work--Ukraine.
Church and state--Ukraine.
Secularism--Ukraine.
Evangelicalism--Ukraine.
Evangelistic work--Ukraine.
Church and state--Ukraine.
Secularism--Ukraine.


Electronic Books.

BR1642 / .C666 2007