Anthropologies of Eurasia - CEU Press

Indigenous Christianity: Missionaries, Modernity, and Marginality in the Siberian Tundra

1st Edition

By Tatiana Vagramenko
June 30, 2026

This book traces the story of a Nenets indigenous community in Siberia and how its members' lives were transformed by religious conversion in post-Soviet and Putin’s Russia. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in a region now largely closed to outsiders, it offers an intimate...