Items where Author is "Pelkmans, Mathijs"

Article

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2025) Capricious states and betwixt citizens across the caucasus. Caucasus Survey, 13 (1). 79 - 90. ISSN 2376-1199

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2024) Suspicion and evidence: on the complexities of online truth seeking in times of uncertainty. Social Anthropology, 32 (2). ISSN 1469-8676

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2021) Frontier dynamics: reflections on evangelical and Tablighi missions in Central Asia. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63 (1). 212 - 241. ISSN 0010-4175

Bovensiepen, Judith and Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2020) Dynamics of wilful blindness: an introduction. Critique of Anthropology, 40 (4). pp. 387-402. ISSN 0308-275X

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 and Umetbaeva, Damira (2018) Moneylending and moral reasoning on the capitalist frontier in Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Quarterly, 91 (3). pp. 1049-1074. ISSN 0003-5491

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 and Umetbaeva, Damira (2018) Stuff of boundaries? Kyrgyz–Russian marriages and the actualization of ethnic difference. History and Anthropology, 29 (5). pp. 541-562. ISSN 0275-7206

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2016) The restlessness of doubt, and the tenacity of belief. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 6 (1). pp. 499-503. ISSN 2049-1115

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2014) Paradoxes of religious freedom and repression in (post-)Soviet contexts. Journal of Law and Religion, 29 (3). 436 - 446. ISSN 0748-0814

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2013) Ruins of hope in a Kyrgyz post-industrial wasteland (respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate). Anthropology Today, 29 (5). pp. 17-21. ISSN 0268-540X

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2013) A wider audience for anthropology?: political dimensions of an important debate. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 19 (2). pp. 398-404. ISSN 1359-0987

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 and Machold, Rhys (2011) Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2011 (59). pp. 66-80. ISSN 0920-1297

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2010) Religious crossings and conversions on the Muslim–Christian frontier in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures, 19 (2). pp. 109-128. ISSN 1755-2923

Hann, Chris and Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2009) Realigning religion and power in Central Asia: Islam, nation-state and (post)socialism. Europe-Asia Studies, 61 (9). pp. 1517-1541. ISSN 0966-8136

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2009) The "transparency" of Christian proselytizing in Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Quarterly, 82 (2). pp. 423-445. ISSN 0003-5491

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2008) Book review: communities of the converted: Ukrainians and global evangelism - Catherine Wanner. Slavic Review, 67 (4). pp. 1018-1019. ISSN 0037-6779

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2008) Book review: urban life in post-Soviet Asia. Ab Imperio, 2008 (3). pp. 453-457. ISSN 2166-4072

McBrien, Julie and Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2008) Turning Marx on his head. Critique of Anthropology, 28 (1). pp. 87-103. ISSN 0308-275X

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2007) 'Culture' as a tool and an obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 13 (4). pp. 881-899. ISSN 1359-0987

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2005) Missionary encounters in Kyrgyzstan: challenging the national ideal. Central Eurasian Studies Review, 4 (1). pp. 13-16. ISSN 1538-5043

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2005) On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2005 (46). pp. 147-157. ISSN 0920-1297

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2003) The social life of empty buildings: imagining the transition in post-Soviet Ajaria. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2003 (41). pp. 121-136. ISSN 0920-1297

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2002) Religion, nation and state in Georgia: Christian expansion in Muslim Ajaria. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 22 (2). pp. 249-273. ISSN 1360-2004

Book Section

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2022) On the act of comparison: an introduction. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs and Walker, Harry, (eds.) How People Compare. Curzon, Abingdon, UK, 1 - 21. ISBN 9781032229973

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2022) Recognizing uniqueness: on (not) comparing the World Nomad Games. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs and Walker, Harry, (eds.) How People Compare. Curzon, 47 - 67. ISBN 9781032229973

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2018) Doubt, suspicion, mistrust . . . semantic approximations. In: Mühlfried, Florian, (ed.) Mistrust. Ethnographic Approximations. Transcript (Firm), Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 169-178. ISBN 9783837639230

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2015) Mediating miracle truth: permanent struggle and fragile conviction in Kyrgyzstan. In: Coleman, Simon and Hackett, Rosalind i. J., (eds.) The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. NYU Press, New York, USA, pp. 177-193. ISBN 9780814772607

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2015) Religious repression and religious freedom: an analysis of their contradictions in (post- )Soviet contexts. In: Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers, Shakman Hurd, Elizabeth, Mahmood, Saba and Danchin, Peter G., (eds.) Politics of Religious Freedom. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA, pp. 313-323. ISBN 9780226248646

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2015) Awkward secularity between atheism and new religiosity in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. In: Ngo, T. and Quijada, J., (eds.) Atheist Secularism and its Discontents: A Comparative Study of Religion and Communism in Eurasia. Global diversities. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 244-255. ISBN 9781349683703

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2013) Powerful documents: passports, passages, and dilemmas of identification on the Georgian–Turkish border. In: Bacas, Jutta Lauth and Kavanagh, William, (eds.) Border Encounters: Asymmetry and Proximity at Europe's Frontiers. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 90-107. ISBN 9781845453961

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2013) Outline for an ethnography of doubt. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Ethnographies of Doubt: Faith and Uncertainty in Contemporary Societies. I.B. Tauris Publishers, London, UK, pp. 1-42. ISBN 9781848858107

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2012) Chaos and order along the (former) iron curtain. In: Wilson, Thomas M. and Donnan, Hastings, (eds.) Companion to Border Studies. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 269-282. ISBN 9781405198936

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2010) Religious frontiers after socialism: missionary encounters and the dynamics of conversion in Kyrgyzstan,. In: Hann, Chris, (ed.) Religion, Identity, Postsocialism: the Halle Focus Group 2003-2010. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, pp. 41-44.

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2009) Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9781845456177

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2009) Temporary conversions: encounters with Pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan. In: Pelkmans, Mathijs, (ed.) Conversion After Socialism: Disruptions, Modernisms and Technologies of Faith in the Former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 143-162. ISBN 9781845456177

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2006) Asymmetries on the 'religious market' in Kyrgyzstan. In: Hann, Chris, (ed.) The Postsocialist Religious Question: Faith and Power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe. LIT Verlag, Berlin, pp. 29-46. ISBN 3825899047

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2003) Rural credit institutions in Kyrgyzstan: the practice of transition aid. In: Spoor, Max, (ed.) Transition, Institutions and the Rural Sector. Rural economies in transition. Lexington Books, Maryland, USA, pp. 183-195. ISBN 0739105469

Monograph

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2006) Religion und Kultur in Zentralasien: Sowjetische Vermächtnisse und neue Herausforderungen. Jahrbuch 2006. Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Munich, Germany.

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2005) Baptized Georgian: religious conversion to Christianity in autonomous Ajaria. Working paper (71). Max Planck Gesellschaft, Halle / Saale, Germany.

Book

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2017) Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, USA. ISBN 9781501705137

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2006) Defending the border: identity, religion and modernity in the Republic of Georgia. Culture & society after socialism. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. ISBN 9780801473302

Online resource

Pelkmans, Mathijs ORCID: 0000-0001-5188-3470 (2012) Contradictions of religious freedom and religious repression. Religion and the Public Sphere (18 Apr 2012). Website.