How the Bible Works: Russian Baptist Faith as Text
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 fa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Religion and society
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 102-114 |
| Further subjects: | B
family values
B Russian Baptists B Bible B gender order B Faith B Conversion B language of reasoning |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2021.120108 |
