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Communities of the Converted - Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Paperback)
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Communities of the Converted - Ukrainians and Global Evangelism (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Society after Socialism
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After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept
through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late
1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that
had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted Soviet
evangelicals gave way to a charismatic embrace of ecstatic
experience, replete with a belief in faith healing. Catherine
Wanner's historically informed ethnography, the first book on
evangelism in the former Soviet Union, shows how once-marginal
Ukrainian evangelical communities are now thriving and growing in
social and political prominence. Many Soviet evangelicals relocated
to the United States after the fall of the Soviet Union, expanding
the spectrum of evangelicalism in the United States and altering
religious life in Ukraine. Migration has created new transnational
evangelical communities that are now asserting a new public role
for religion in the resolution of numerous social problems.
Hundreds of American evangelical missionaries have engaged in
"church planting" in Ukraine, which is today home to some of the
most active and robust evangelical communities in all of Europe.
Thanks to massive assistance from the West, Ukraine has become a
hub for clerical and missionary training in Eurasia. Many
Ukrainians travel as missionaries to Russia and throughout the
former Soviet Union. 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. Communities of the Converted engages issues of
migration, morality, secularization, and global evangelism, while
highlighting how they have been shaped by socialism. This book is
freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward
an Open Monograph Ecosystem)-a collaboration of the Association of
American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and
the Association of Research Libraries-and the generous support of
the Pennsylvania State University. Learn more at the TOME website,
available at: openmonographs.org. The open access edition is
available at Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open)
and other repositories.
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