Frontier Dynamics: Reflections on Evangelical and Tablighi Missions in Central Asia

Abstract Missionaries have flocked to the Kyrgyz Republic ever since collapse of Soviet Union. Evangelical-Pentecostal and Tablighi missions been particularly active on what they conceive as a fertile post-atheist frontier. But these project their message truth onto frontier, dangers frontier may overwhelm them. Based long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst foreign local Tablighis evangelical-Pentecostals, this article formulates an analytic that highlights affective relational characteristics missionary activities effects. This explains why how missionaries are attracted well some successes failures expansionist efforts. In doing so, reveals potency instability, feature is evident in work, but also resonates with other situations.