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Indigenous Christianity : missionaries, modernity, and marginality in the Siberian tundra / Tatiana Vagramenko
De Gruyter Central European University Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vagramenko, Tatiana, author.
- Series:
- Anthropologies of Eurasia
- Anthropologies of Eurasia : ethnographic encounters of social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nentsy--Religion.
- Nentsy.
- Conversion--Christianity.
- Conversion.
- Missionaries--Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Missionaries.
- Russia (Federation)--Siberia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- illustration
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "This book traces the story of a Nenets indigenous community in Siberia and how their lives were transformed by religious conversion in post-Soviet and Putin’s Russia. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in a region now largely closed to outsiders, it offers an intimate account of faith, power, and endurance in one of the Arctic’s most marginalized communities. Nenets nomads, long shaped by Russian colonialism and Soviet modernization, experienced sweeping conversions in the mid-1990s, culminating in the creation of a tundra church tied to a radical evangelical movement. Amid Putin’s tightening control—when indigenous peoples and minority faiths faced renewed surveillance and harassment—the book follows Nenets and missionaries whose encounters across the tundra sparked tensions between converts and non-converts, faith and state. Through stories of hope, loss, and resilience, it reveals how global evangelical Christianity intersects with local traditions, reshaping kinship, belonging, and modernity in the Siberian tundra"-- De Gruyter Brill
- Contents:
- The Nenets conversion story : voices, choices, and ethical dilemmas
- Modernity : Russian, unequal, contaminating
- The politics of religion after socialism and the predicament of religious life in the Russian Arctic
- Religion and power : the rise of the Putin regime
- Contested identities : the rise and fall of Indigenous movements in Russia
- Burning the sacred : Christian conversion and cultural discontinuity
- The Nenets Christian project : ethnotheology and reindigenization
- The production of Christian fundamentalism in the Nenets tundra
- Blood and faith : rethinking kinship through Christ
- More about love : gender, family, and the return to tradition
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 10, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Vagramenko, Tatiana Indigenous Christianity
- ISBN:
- 9789048575169
- 9048575168
- 9789048575176
- 9048575176
- 9781042008179
- 1042008175
- OCLC:
- 1561549297
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000403476
- Access Restriction:
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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