Vol. 31, No. 1, Spring/Summer 1993- “The Pennsylvania Geographer”

ORIGIN AND DIFFUSION OF BAPTISTS AND PENTECOSTALS IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

Susan Wiley Hardwick, Ph.D.

Department of Geography and Planning

California State University, Chico

Chico, CA 959290425

Abstract

 In the void created by loss of faith in Communism as the dominant ideology, the former Soviet republics are experiencing a religious revival in the early 1990s. Russia and Ukraine, in particular, have become targets for religious conversion by American fundamentalist groups, particularly Pentecostals and Baptists.