Travels and Settlement of the “Chapel” (“Chasovenny”) Old Believers, based on the
epistolary and polemic writings in XX-XXI Cover Image

Странствования и расселение староверов часовенного согласия по переписке и полемическим сочинениям ХХ-ХХI веков
Travels and Settlement of the “Chapel” (“Chasovenny”) Old Believers, based on the epistolary and polemic writings in XX-XXI

Author(s): Elena A. Ageeva
Subject(s): Cultural history, Evaluation research, Migration Studies
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: Old Believers; Migrations; Polemics; Question of the “White Water” (Belovodye) in various communities;

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays the followers of the “Chapel” community differ from the other branches of the Old Believers by high mobility, dynamics of their migration trajectories and their polemic views on many challenges of the modern world. In the article both their everyday life and their worldviews are being analyzed based on the written sources of the Old Believers from Oregon (USA) and the narratives of the Ural Mountain Dwellers.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 73-83
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian