Communities of the Converted: Ukrainians and Global Evangelism

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Index Abu-Lughod, Lila, 15 Action Group (Initsiativnaia Grupa), 64–65, 66 Adelaja, Bossie, 216 Adelaja, Sunday, 210–11, 214, 215, 216 conversion strategy, 212 dialogue with God, 218–20 inclusion of religion into public sphere, advocacy of, 232–34 March of Life parade and, 229–30 volunteerism, advocacy of, 230–31 Africa, 185, 255 African believers, 277n5 Alcoholics Anonymous, 220, 221, 223–24, 279n8 All-Russian Conference of Baptists (1923), 47 All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians , 26, 27, 28 All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUT-sIK), 39 All-Ukrainian Congress of Baptists, 43, 44 All-Ukrainian Congress of Evangelical Christians, 44 All-Ukrainian Union of United Baptists, 43, 44, 49 All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians and Baptists (AUCECB), 57–58, 63–64, 266n8 evangelicals, dismay with, 64–65 Pentecostals and, 57, 91–92, 268n27 See also Bratskii Vestnik American Baptist Church, 102, 116 American missionaries, 4, 5–6, 140-45, 146, 216, 250, 274n20 support to Ukrainian evangelical communities , 180–81, 199 Ukrainian Baptists’ disdain for, 178–79, 181–82, 190, 191 See also Missionaries; Western missionaries Amish, 107, 108 Anabaptism, 23, 258n5 See also Shtundists Antireligious Campaign, 2, 40-41, 55, 59–87, 267n14 Article 227, 70 children, state abduction of, 89–90 Page numbers in italics refer to photographs. Antireligious Campaign (continued) individual attacks, 67–68, 69–70 KGB and, 81–82 mandates regulating, 63–66 propaganda tropes of, 68 public debates, 66–67, 68–69, 268n32 registered believers, defiant compliance by, 66–74 repression methods, 73–74 state deceit, 69–70 unregistered believers, defiant compliance by, 80, 81–86 unregistered believers, underground life of, 74–79 Antireligious Commission, 66–67 anti-Semitism, tsarist Russia, 268n35 Artem Kharkiv Communist University, 40 Article 227 (Antireligious Campaign), 70 Asad, Talal, 7, 62, 77, 224 Assemblies of God, 138, 139 AUCECB. See All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians and Baptists Austin-Broos, Diane, 167 Bapsomol (youth league), 41 baptism, evangelical, 12, 87–88 Baptist Church Council, 30 Baptist communities American Baptists, cultural differences between, 178–79, 181–84, 268n47 American missionaries, disdain for, 178– 79, 181–82, 190, 191 bivocationality of clergy, 183–84 early converts to, 24 Evangelical Christians, differences between , 25–26 God, conception of, 191–92 membership expansion, 1, 138 military service and, 30-31, 48, 190 music, 29, 195-96 Pentecostals, relations with, 42, 76 preaching style, 183–84 schism within, 64–65 September 11 attacks, interpretations of, 190, 191 Theology of, 3-4, 12, 27, 74, 252 See also Antireligious Campaign; Central Baptist Church; Christian-Baptists; New Central Baptist Church Baptists, American patriotism of, 189, 190 preaching style, 183–84 Ukrainian Baptists, cultural differences between, 178–79, 181–84 witnessing, narrative tradition of, 157–58, 159–60 See also Russian Baptists; Slavic Baptist Church; Soviet evangelicals; Ukrainian Baptist Church Baptist Ukrainy (newspaper), 43–44, 47, 49, 264n62 Baptist World Alliance, 23, 43 Barabashova (outdoor market), 198–99 Barker, Eileen, 163–64 Belarus, 134, 147, 210-11, 263n54, 274n20 Berger, Peter, 213, 253 Bergman, Jay, 267n22 Berkhoff, Karel, 56, 266n3 Bible, Russian language and, 26 Biddulph, Howard, 135, 273n16 Binns, Christopher, 53 Bolsheviks antireligious propaganda, 39–41 evangelicals, relations with, 32, 45, 48–51 morality, understanding of, 34 religion, critique of, 33–34 secularization efforts, 35–37 See also Soviet Union Bonekemper, Karl, 24 Borzenko, Artem, 268n32 Bourdeaux, Michael, 268n36 Bratskii Vestnik (newspaper), 56, 58, 266n12 See also All-Union Council of Evangelical Christians and Baptists Brazil, 140 Brewster, Percy, 270n58 Brezhnev, Leonid, 82–83, 86–87, 88, 90–91 British Bible Society, 27, 261n13 Caldwell, Melissa, 166, 277n5 capitalism indigenous cultures and, 249–50 See also prosperity theology Carter, Jimmy, 65, 91 Casanova, José, 7, 132 Catherine the Great, 23 Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 200 CCEB (Council of Churches of Evangelical Christian-Baptists), 65 Center for Leadership Development, 142– 143, 242, 243 Central Baptist Church (Kharkiv), 28 American missionaries, disdain for, 178– 79 membership expansion, 176–77 outreach efforts, 185, 186 physical structure, 175–76, 176 traditional ethos and formality of, 177–78 298 Index See also Baptist communities; ChristianBaptists charismatic, etymology of, 278n22 charismatic communities, 4 See also Embassy of God; Good News Church; Pentecostal communities charismatic movement, 200 charismatic Pentecostalism, 185, 278n21 See also Pentecostalism Chernovet'skyi, L. M., 217, 233, 236–39, 243 Christian-Baptists, 28, 29–30, 262n21 See also Central Baptist Church Christian Leadership Center, 146 “Christians of the Entire World” (Chernogorsk Pentecostal congregation ), 90...