Abstract
Transformations of the Ukrainian Baptist Movement in the Face of Societal Changes and Upheav als
This article focuses on the development of the Ukrainian Baptist movement
after the dissolution of the USSR. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it marks
and examines two reasons for the rapid transformation of the Baptist movement,
namely the uneasy political situation and the involvement of local
evangelicals in the social services. The article investigates the specificity of
the context of the post-Soviet Baptist movement in Ukraine: how a particular
conservative tradition subsequently comes under increasing pressure
from open-style Baptists.
Key words: Baptists, Ukraine, the Bible, transformation, tradition.
Publisher
Lietuvos Istorijos Institutas
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences,General Environmental Science
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