The affinity between Protestant Christianity and modernization and disenchantment of the world has been widely discussed after Max Weber, and the post-Soviet case is no exception. As scholars argue, in post-Soviet Russia, in the mid-1990s, the neo-Evangelical movements gradually contributed to social changes after socialism by bringing neoliberal capitalist culture. The paper, however, outlines the case when Evangelical movement became a form of ‘ritual resistance’ to the process of disenchantment.Drawing on examples from her ethnographic research on Nenets indigenous people living in the Russian Arctic, the author explores how religious conversion amongst the Nenets became a form of un-making capitalism, a mode to slow down the Western shape of ‘modernity’ and, ironically, to return to the Soviet-like disciplinary regimes. Evangelical conversion became a foundation for re-assemblance of Nenets system of identities and for revision of Nenets authenticity, as well as a way to restore their subsistence communities and economy.

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