Свои и чужие у староверов румынии
US and THEM in the community of Romanian Old Believers

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the situation which arose after the democratic changes in the community of Romanian Old Believers (i.e. Lipowanie), where apart from traditional organizations a whole range of lay institutions also became active. In effect, the process of the revival of this ethnic minority is two-directional. The competition between new, nationalistically-minded Old Believers and traditional religious leaders results in the US --- THEM opposition being manifested as juxtapositions of the concepts of sin and piety, education and old dogmas, the literary variety of Russian and the dialect of Lipowanie etc.The new economic and social situation results in closer relations between the religious and secular culture of Lipowanie. At the same time, the traditional mechanisms upholding the religious culture, of which the most significant one is migration, allows for the emergence of new places inhabited by US: Old Believers in the united Europe.

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