What <i>Does</i> Matter?: Idols and Icons in the Nenets Tundra
This paper examines a mission encounter in the Nenets reindeer herders’ tundra. In post-Soviet Arctic Russia, Pentecostal and Baptist missionaries of Russian and Ukrainian origin have been fighting against idolatry and trying to persuade the Nenets to burn their sacred images or khekhe’’. They claim...
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Main Author: | Laur Vallikivi |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2011-09-01
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Series: | Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics |
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Online Access: | https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/70 |
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