1st Edition
Indigenous Christianity Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra
Note on Transliteration and Terminology
Acknowledgements
Part 1. Ethnography of Marginality in a Difficult Field
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Nenets Conversion Story: Voices, Choices, and Ethical Dilemmas
Part 2. Religion, Power, and Modernity: From the Soviet Era to the Putin Regime
Chapter 2. Modernity: Russian, Unequal, Contaminating
Chapter 3. The Politics of Religion After Socialism and the Predicament of Religious Life in the Russian Arctic
Chapter 4. Religion and Power: The Rise of the Putin Regime
Chapter 5. Contested Identities: The Rise and Fall of Indigenous Movements in Russia
Part 3. Continuity and Rupture: Nenets Christianities
Chapter 6. Burning the Sacred: Christian Conversion and Cultural Discontinuity
Chapter 7. The Nenets Christian Project: Ethnotheology and Reindigenization
Chapter 8. The Production of Christian Fundamentalism in the Nenets Tundra
Part 4. Lived Religion in the Nenets Tundra
Chapter 9. Blood and Faith: Rethinking Kinship Through Christ
Chapter 10. More About Love: Gender, Family, and the Return to Tradition
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
Tatiana Vagramenko, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Cork and Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, works at the intersection of anthropology, religious studies, and digital humanities.
