POLITICS AND FOLK RELIGION IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION
POLITICS AND FOLK RELIGION IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION
Author(s): Irina Aleksandrovna SedakovaSubject(s): Customs / Folklore, Media studies, Political history, Politics and religion, Politics and society, History of Communism, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: folk religion; politics; communist; Russia; the USSR; atheism; paganism; stereotypes; Orthodoxy; mass media;
Summary/Abstract: The several decades of totalitarian aggressive atheism have drastically changed the folk religion. In new political conditions this legacy remains very important, because it develops some typical features of contemporary religion–politics interrelation. The Orthodox religion became more and more linked with the political discourse. What was forbidden for a long period of decades out of a sudden became first official and then even obligatory, like atheism before. Some facts taken from Russian mass media of the nineties illustrate how the legacy of the Soviet past and the new popular version of Orthodoxy correlate with the politics.
Journal: Acta Ethnographica Hungarica
- Issue Year: 46/2001
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 131-136
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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