Radford, David (Lecturer at the University of South Australia)

Religious identity and social change explaining Christian conversion in a Muslim world / [electronic resource] : David Radford. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2015. - 1 online resource (xxvii, 199 p.) : ill., map - Routledge advances in sociology ; 150 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Making sense of the context -- 3. Methodology and description of Kyrgyz Christians -- 4. Approaches to the study of religious conversion -- 5. Religious capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- 6. The social and cultural capital and Kyrgyz conversion -- 7. Life situations, solutions and explanations -- 8. Living out a minority Kyrgyz Christian identity in a majority Muslim Kyrgyz world -- 9. Religious conversion and the re-construction of ethnic identity.

9781315776859 (ebook : PDF)


Christian converts from Islam--Kyrgyzstan.
Christianity and other religions--Islam.
Identification (Religion)
Islam--Relations--Christianity.


Kyrgyzstan--Religion.