Open AccessUkrainos baptistų judėjimo transformacijos visuomenės pokyčių ir lūžių akivaizdoje
Author(s) -
Eugenijus Liutkevičius
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lietuvos etnologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-6522
pISSN - 1392-4028
DOI - 10.33918/25386522-2130003
Subject(s) - ukrainian , political science , politics , context (archaeology) , gender studies , sociology , movement (music) , modernization theory , political economy , history , law , aesthetics , art , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
Transformations of the Ukrainian Baptist Movement in the Face of Societal Changes and Upheav alsThis article focuses on the development of the Ukrainian Baptist movementafter the dissolution of the USSR. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, it marksand examines two reasons for the rapid transformation of the Baptist movement,namely the uneasy political situation and the involvement of localevangelicals in the social services. The article investigates the specificity ofthe context of the post-Soviet Baptist movement in Ukraine: how a particularconservative tradition subsequently comes under increasing pressurefrom open-style Baptists.Key words: Baptists, Ukraine, the Bible, transformation, tradition.