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

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前沿动态：对中亚福音派和 Tablighi 使命的反思

摘要 苏联解体后，传教士纷纷涌入吉尔吉斯共和国。福音派-五旬节派和 Tablighi 的使命在他们认为是肥沃的后无神论前沿领域特别活跃。但当这些任务将他们的真理信息投射到边境时，边境的危险可能会压倒他们。基于对外国和当地 Tablighis 和福音派五旬节派的长期民族志田野调查，本文对前沿进行了分析，突出了传教活动的情感和关系特征及其影响。这个分析解释了为什么和如何吸引传教士到边境，以及他们扩张主义努力的一些成功和失败。在这样做的过程中，文章揭示了不稳定的潜力，