{"id":2027,"date":"2013-05-01T10:09:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T17:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2013-05-21T22:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T05:08:30","slug":"christianity-in-mongolia-since-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2013\/christianity-in-mongolia-since-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity in Mongolia since 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like mining, we witness a religious boom in Mongolia. Like many post-socialist countries where religion experienced state repression, Mongolia has seen the revival and diversity of religion since 1990. The expansion of Buddhism and Shamanism, Mongolian &#8220;traditional&#8221; religions, has been particularly prevalent. As such, much scholarly and media attention has been attached to the history and contemporary development of Buddhism and Shamanism. Though the expansion of &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; religions, Christianity in particular, has caught media attention, little has been done by scholars to examine the social background and broader implications of these religions.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the collaborative research project on religious cultures in East Asia, which is led by Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.let.hokudai.ac.jp\/en\/study\/staff-list-hum190.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sakurai Yoshihide<\/a> (Hokkaido University), I spent two months in Mongolia early this year conducting research on the spread of Christianity since 1990 and the socio-economic and cultural background of Mongolian Christians. With the help from my friend Dr. Oyun-Erdene Bolduukhai (Mongol-Ulaanbaatar University), I was able to receive about 350 self-administered questionnaires filled in by Christians representing more than 20 different Christian churches in Ulaanbaatar city, Selenge, and Tuv aimag. We also conducted interviews with a number of pastors and participant observations during various church events.<\/p>\n<p>The following PowerPoint presentation was presented at the International Workshop on Social Change and Religious Transformation in East Asia held at Hokkaido University on March 2-3, 2013. Though this presentation does not include the results of the survey research, it presents some preliminary observations on the expansion of Christianity in Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p>I am writing a book chapter based mainly on this fieldwork and survey research. I welcome your comments, suggestions, and questions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/20218073\" height=\"356\" width=\"427\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 5px;\"><strong> <a title=\"Christianity in mongolia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ByambajavDalaibuyan\/christianity-in-mongolia\" target=\"_blank\">Christianity in mongolia<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/ByambajavDalaibuyan\" target=\"_blank\">Byambajav Dalaibuyan<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like mining, we witness a religious boom in Mongolia. Like many post-socialist countries where religion experienced state repression, Mongolia has seen the revival and diversity of religion since 1990. The expansion of Buddhism and Shamanism, Mongolian &#8220;traditional&#8221; religions, has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2013\/christianity-in-mongolia-since-1990\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[307899,1004,307853,6851,307930,3511,307852],"tags":[307959],"class_list":["post-2027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-byambajav-dalaibuyan","category-religion","category-research-on-mongolia","category-social-issues","category-social-movements","category-society-and-culture","category-ulaanbaatar","tag-byambajav-dalaibuyan-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2168,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}