"I used to be a traitor": Russian Baptist Conversion as Unlearning
This article discusses adult conversion in the Russian Baptist community as the unlearning of old sinful ways of living. Russian Baptists see conversion as an act of repentance, surrendering to Christ, and becoming born again, and as a life-long process of growing in faith. Based on an ethnographic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Approaching religion
Year: 2024, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 210-223 |
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Cerkov' Evangel'skich Christian-Baptistov v Rossii
/ Conversion (Religion)
/ Religious development
/ Verlernen
/ Fine
/ Morals
/ History 2010-2021
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion CB Christian life; spirituality CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) KDG Free church NCA Ethics RA Practical theology TK Recent history |
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Baptists
B Ethnography B unlearning B Conversion B Russia |
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| Summary: | This article discusses adult conversion in the Russian Baptist community as the unlearning of old sinful ways of living. Russian Baptists see conversion as an act of repentance, surrendering to Christ, and becoming born again, and as a life-long process of growing in faith. Based on an ethnographic study of the Baptist community in north-western and central Russia, the article discusses the glocal nature of the Russian Baptist community that attracts the kind of people that convert to this faith and the circumstances of their conversion. Russian Baptist conversion is viewed as an act and a process, and conversion is seen as an ethical choice and an unlearning of the old ways of living. |
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| ISSN: | 1799-3121 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Approaching religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.30664/ar.131508 |