Conversion to religion? Negotiating continuity and discontinuity in contemporary Altai

Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 17-37

  Broz, Ludek ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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