Publications of Mathijs Pelkmans

Pelkmans, M.: Religious crossings and conversions on the Muslim-Christian frontier in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 19 (2), pp. 109 - 128 (2010)

Hann, C.; Pelkmans, M.: Realigning religion and power in Central Asia: Islam, nation-state and (post)socialism. Europe-Asia Studies 61 (9), pp. 1517 - 1541 (2009)

Pelkmans, M.: The "Transparency" of Christian proselytizing in Kyrgyzstan. Anthropological Quarterly 82 (2), pp. 423 - 445 (2009)

McBrien, J.; Pelkmans, M.: Turning Marx on his head: missionaries, "extremists" and archaic secularists in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Critique of Anthropology 28 (1), pp. 87 - 103 (2008)

Pelkmans, M.: "Culture" as a tool and an obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 13 (4), pp. 881 - 899 (2007)

Pelkmans, M.: Missionary encounters in Kyrgyzstan: challenging the national ideal. Central Eurasian Studies Review 4, pp. 13 - 16 (2005)

Pelkmans, M.: On transition and revolution in Kyrgyzstan. Focaal 46, pp. 147 - 157 (2005)

Pelkmans, M.: The social life of empty buildings: imagining the transition in post-Soviet Ajaria. Focaal 41, pp. 121 - 135 (2003)

Pelkmans, M.: 'Culture' as a tool and an obstacle: missionary encounters in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan. In: World Christianity: critical concepts in religious studies, Vol. 3, pp. 230 - 252 (Ed. Koepping, E.). Routledge, London (2011)

Pelkmans, M.: Religious frontiers after socialism: missionary encounters and the dynamics of conversion in Kyrgyzstan. In: Religion, identity, postsocialism: the Halle Focus Group 2003 - 2010, pp. 41 - 44 (Ed. Hann, C.). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale (2010)

Pelkmans, M.: Introduction: post-Soviet space and the unexpected turns of religious life. In: Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union, pp. 1 - 16 (Ed. Pelkmans, M.). Berghahn, New York (2009)

Pelkmans, M.: Temporary conversions: encounters with pentecostalism in Muslim Kyrgyzstan. In: Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union, pp. 143 - 161 (Ed. Pelkmans, M.). Berghahn, New York (2009)

Pelkmans, M.: Asymmetries on the 'Religious Market' in Kyrgyzstan. In: The postsocialist religious question: faith and power in Central Asia and East-Central Europe, pp. 29 - 46 (Eds. Hann, C.; "Civil Religion" Group). LIT, Münster (2006)

Pelkmans, M.: Rural credit institutions in Kyrgyzstan: a case-study in the practice of transition aid. In: Transition, institutions and the rural sector, pp. 183 - 195 (Ed. Spoor, M.). Lexington Books, Lanham (2003)

Pelkmans, M.: Baptized Georgian: religious conversion to christianity in autonomous Ajaria. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 71 (2005), 30 pp.

Pelkmans, M. E.: Religion und Kultur in Zentralasien: sowjetische Vermächtnisse und neue Herausforderungen, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Jahrbuch 2006, (2006)

Pelkmans, M.: Shifting frontiers: islam and christianity in post-soviet Ajaria, ISIM Newsletter 12, pp. 46 - 47 (2003)

Pelkmans, M. (Ed.): Conversion after socialism: disruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union. Berghahn, New York (2009), 208 pp.

Pelkmans, M.: Fragile conviction: changing ideological landscapes in urban Kyrgyzstan. Cornell University Press, Ithaca; London (2017), 232 pp.

Pelkmans, M.: Defending the border: identity, religion, and modernity in the Republic of Georgia. Cornell University Press, Ithaca (2006), XVI, 240p. pp.