RT Article
T1 How the Bible Works: Russian Baptist Faith as Text
JF Religion and society
VO 12
IS 1
SP 102
OP 114
A1 Mikeshin, Igor
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1824154372
AB This article is about Russian Baptists' perception of their faith as a text. I argue that they practice their lived faith by interiorizing the language of the Russian Synodal Translation of the Bible as their "language of reasoning". I support this claim by analyzing two aspects of faith: as an act of conversion and as a process of living a Christian life. To illustrate the mechanism of sustaining faith, I use the case of a rehabilitation ministry for addicted people to unpack narratives of conversion, gender order, and family life. Biblical literalism is the basis of the Russian Baptist faith narrative, and in this article I scrutinize the mechanism of its construction.
K1 Bible
K1 Conversion
K1 Faith
K1 family values
K1 gender order
K1 language of reasoning
K1 Russian Baptists
DO 10.3167/arrs.2021.120108