Description:
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...
Brief description: Catherine Wanner is Associate Professor of History and Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Burden of Dreams: History and Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine and coeditor of Reclaiming the Sacred: Community, Morality, and Religion after Communism.
Review Quotes:
This book is carefully constructed to take account of the social and historical context of the Ukraine, not only in discussing Ukrainian evangelicals themselves but also in helping the reader understand the central role played by evangelism in their communities.... Among other things... it provides what is arguably the most comprehensive socio-historical account of Soviet Pentecostalism in the English language.... In all, this most illuminating study is essential reading for anyone interested in issues of globalization, social involvement, and Pentecostalism in Eastern Europe.
-- "Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies"